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16. Ann M. Simmons, “On Zimbabwe Farms, Push Now Comes to Shove,” Los Angeles Times, July 1, 2000, p. A1 (quoting Agrippa Gava, executive director of the Zimbabwean National Liberation War Veterans Association).
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17. “Leader Urges Zimbabwe Blacks to Menace the White Residents,” New York Times, December 15, 2000, p. A8.
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18. Adam Roberts makes these points in “The Great Manipulator,” Times Literary Supplement, March 8, 2002, p. 78. See also Donna Harman, “Land Reform: An African Issue,” Christian Science Monitor, March 13, 2002.
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19. Thomas Frank, One Market under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy (New York: Doubleday, 2000), p. xv.
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20. See The World Bank, Globalization, Growth and Poverty: Building an Inclusive World Economy (New York: The World Bank and Oxford University Press, 2002), chapter 1.
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21. See “Interviewing Chomsky; Preparatory to Porto Alegre,” http://www.zmag.org/chomskypa.htm. Lori Wallach’s quotes are from “Brazil: World Social Forum for Global Equity, Says Activist,” Agence France-Presse, February 2, 2002, and “Lori Wallach and Others on the WTO’s Dubious ‘Doha Round,’” lists.essential.org/pipermail/tw-list/2001-November/000101.html.
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22. For various conceptions of “democracy,” see Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (3d ed.) (New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1950), p. 269; Robert A. Dahl, Democracy and Its Critics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989), pp. 121–22, 220–22; Jon Elster and Rune Slagstad, eds., Constitutionalism and Democracy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), p. 1; and Philippe C. Schmitter and Terry Lynn Karl, “What Democracy Is . . . and Is Not,” in Geoffrey Pridham, ed., Transitions to Democracy: Comparative Perspectives From Southern Europe, Latin America and Eastern Europe (Aldershot, England: Dartmouth Publishing, 1995), pp. 3–16.
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23. Donald L. Horowitz, Ethnic Groups in Conflict (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1985), pp. 51–92. “The ethnic tie is simultaneously suffused with overtones of familial duty and laden with depths of familial emotion,” writes Horowitz. For various perspectives on the larger question of “what is ethnicity?,” see Harold R. Isaacs, Idols of the Tribe (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1989), pp. 38–45; Anthony Smith, The Ethnic Origins of Nations (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1986), pp. 11–13, 32; John Breuilly, Nationalism and the State (2d ed.) (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1993), pp. 19–24; and John Hutchinson and Anthony Smith, eds., Ethnicity (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).
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24. See Philip Gourevitch’s magnificent book, We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families (New York: Picador USA, 1998), especially chapter 4.
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Part One Preface
1. As reported in Thomas Frank, One Market under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy (New York: Doubleday, 2000), p. 12.
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2. Mitchell Landsberg, “Race, Resentment Fuel Attacks on Indians in Fiji,” Los Angeles Times, June 22, 2000, p. A3.
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3. Frank, One Market under God, p. 12.
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4. See Anna Gelpern and Malcolm Harrison, “Ideology, Practice, and Performance in Privatization,” Harvard International Law Journal 33 (1992): 240–54; Sander Thoenes, “Trust of People Key to Reform,” Financial Times, July 11, 1996, p. 3; and Jack Epstein, “Brazil’s Economy Lagging Behind,” San Francisco Chronicle, February 28, 1994, p. A8.
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Chapter 1
1. Donald L. Horowitz, The Deadly Ethnic Riot (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2001), pp. 96, 185, 211–12. The contemporary observer was the Britishman Maurice Collins. His account