World on Fire - Brownstein, Michael [0]
Cover Page
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Globalization and Ethnic Hatred
PART ONE
The Economic Impact of Globalization
1 Rubies and Rice Paddies
Chinese Minority Dominance in Southeast Asia
2 Llama Fetuses, Latifundia, and La Blue Chip Numero Uno
“White” Wealth in Latin America
3 The Seventh Oligarch
The Jewish Billionaires of Post-Communist Russia
4 The “Ibo of Cameroon”
Market-Dominant Minorities in Africa
PART TWO
The Political Consequences of Globalization
5 Backlash against Markets
Ethnically Targeted Seizures and Nationalizations
6 Backlash against Democracy
Crony Capitalism and Minority Rule
7 Backlash against Market-Dominant Minorities
Expulsions and Genocide
8 Mixing Blood
Assimilation, Globalization, and the Case of Thailand
PART THREE
Ethnonationalism and the West
9 The Underside of Western Free Market Democracy
From Jim Crow to the Holocaust
10 The Middle Eastern Cauldron
Israeli Jews as a Regional Market-Dominant Minority
11 Why They Hate Us
America as a Global Market-Dominant Minority
12 The Future of Free Market Democracy
Afterword
Notes
Index
About the Author
Acclaim for Amy Chua’s WORLD ON FIRE
Copyright Page
To my mother and father
Acknowledgments
I am grateful to many people for their contributions to this book, but my greatest debt by far is to my husband Jed Rubenfeld, who for a decade has read every word I’ve written. I am the fortunate beneficiary of his kindness and genius.
I am also deeply grateful to a number of friends and professional colleagues. Strobe Talbott and Russell Pittman both read earlier drafts of the manuscript in its entirety and gave me tremendously helpful criticisms and suggestions. Others who provided invaluable comments on particular chapters include Bruce Ackerman, Yochai Benkler, Owen Fiss, Or Gozani, Jonathan Hecht, Donald Horowitz, Martin Michael, Elchi Nowrojee, Jeff Powell, George Priest, Susan Rose-Ackerman, Jennifer Roth-Gordon, David Steinberg, Alan Tan, and especially Amalia Anaya, Gonzalo Mendieta, and Jorge Patiño, who tried valiantly to correct my North American misconceptions. Errors, of course, are mine alone.
Many research assistants devoted dozens, in some cases hundreds, of hours to this book. In particular, I would like to thank Ivana Cingel, Alana Hoffman, David Penna, Rory Phimester, Lara Slachta, Brent Wible, and especially Jason Choy, who amazed me with his dedication and willingness to help at all hours. The following former students also provided extremely helpful assistance and often local expertise: Migai Akech, Homayoon Arfazadah, Hubert Baylon, Jennifer Becker, Jennifer Behr, Ikenna Emehelu, Jeff Federman, Ben Hance, Lidia Kidane, Nimrod Kozlovski, Bianca Locsin, Toni Moore, Gonzalo Zegarra Mulanovich, Christina Owens, Caio Mario da Silva Pereira Neto, Tom Perriello, Emily Pierce, Uzi Rosha, Damian Schaible, Bill Scheffer, Daniel Sheridan, Saema Somalya, Suchon Tuly, Anders Walker, Kanchana Wang, and Tammy Zavaliyenko.
Many individuals were interviewed for this book, and I am thankful to them for their time and frankness. In most cases I have changed their names and other identifying factors to protect their anonymity.
This book is based on three earlier academic articles of mine: “The Paradox of Free Market Democracy: Rethinking Development Policy,” Harvard International Law Journal 41 (2000): 287–379, “Markets, Democracy, and Ethnicity: Toward a New Paradigm for Law and Development,” Yale Law Journal 108 (1998): 1–107, and “The Privatization-Nationalization Cycle: The Link Between Markets and Ethnicity in Developing Countries,” Columbia Law Review 95 (1995): 223–303. I could not have written those articles without the friendship, support, and generosity of Dean Pamela Gann and Dean Katharine Bartlett of the Duke Law School and Dean Anthony Kronman of the Yale Law School.
Gene Coakley of the Yale Law School Library awed me with his energy and resourcefulness and has my great admiration and gratitude. I would also like to thank Miriam Abramowitz, Nicole Dewey,