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Book Review of World on Fire : How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability

World on Fire : How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
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Amy Chua is quite a provocative writer. I'm not sure I buy her thesis as expounded in this book. But I do think that it's a mistake to think their is such a thing as "one size fits all" democracy.

Her latest book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, is getting a huge amount of press at the moment.