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KINGSTON, R.I. — September 22, 2003 — A professor of international law at Yale Law School will discuss ethnic violence and its link to free-market democracy as part of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Colloquium, “The Futures of Globalization,” Tuesday, Sept. 30.
Amy Chua, author of The New York Times bestseller, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, will speak at 7 p.m. in 溏心vlog免费B站鈥檚 Chafee Social Science Center, Room 271. Her talk and all colloquium programs are free and open to the public.
For more than a decade, the consensus has held that the combination of free markets and democracy would transform the Third World and sweep away ethnic hatred and religious zealotry associated with underdevelopment.
Chua will show that many developing countries are in fact consumed by ethnic violence after adopting free-market democracy.
In her book, Chua addresses what she describes as “market-dominant minorities” 鈥� Chinese in the Philippines, Croatians in the former Yugoslavia, whites in Latin America, Indians in East Africa, Jews in Russia 鈥� become objects of violent hatred.
At the same time, Chua argues, democracy empowers the impoverished majority, unleashing ethnic demagoguery, confiscation, and sometime genocidal revenge. She also says the United States has become the world鈥檚 most visible market-dominant minority, which helps explain the rising tide of anti-Americanism around the world.
Chua is clear that she is not blaming prosperous ethnic groups for violence directed against them, or blaming capitalism alone for fomenting genocide.
Instead, her point is that “in the numerous countries around the world that have pervasive poverty and a market-dominant minority, democracy and markets 鈥� at least in the form in which they are currently being promoted 鈥� can proceed only in deep tension with each other.”
Please visit www.uri.edu/hc for the most current colloquium information and full schedule of events and directions, or contact the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Center at 401-874-2381 or debg@uri.edu.
The program鈥檚 major sponsors are: the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Program and President鈥檚 Office, The Providence Journal, Fidelity Investments, 溏心vlog免费B站 Foundation, 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Arts and Sciences and the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Business Administration.
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KINGSTON, R.I. — September 22, 2003 — A professor of international law at Yale Law School will discuss ethnic violence and its link to free-market democracy as part of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Colloquium, “The Futures of Globalization,” Tuesday, Sept. 30.
Amy Chua, author of The New York Times bestseller, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, will speak at 7 p.m. in 溏心vlog免费B站鈥檚 Chafee Social Science Center, Room 271. Her talk and all colloquium programs are free and open to the public.
For more than a decade, the consensus has held that the combination of free markets and democracy would transform the Third World and sweep away ethnic hatred and religious zealotry associated with underdevelopment.
Chua will show that many developing countries are in fact consumed by ethnic violence after adopting free-market democracy.
In her book, Chua addresses what she describes as “market-dominant minorities” 鈥� Chinese in the Philippines, Croatians in the former Yugoslavia, whites in Latin America, Indians in East Africa, Jews in Russia 鈥� become objects of violent hatred.
At the same time, Chua argues, democracy empowers the impoverished majority, unleashing ethnic demagoguery, confiscation, and sometime genocidal revenge. She also says the United States has become the world鈥檚 most visible market-dominant minority, which helps explain the rising tide of anti-Americanism around the world.
Chua is clear that she is not blaming prosperous ethnic groups for violence directed against them, or blaming capitalism alone for fomenting genocide.
Instead, her point is that “in the numerous countries around the world that have pervasive poverty and a market-dominant minority, democracy and markets 鈥� at least in the form in which they are currently being promoted 鈥� can proceed only in deep tension with each other.”
Please visit www.uri.edu/hc for the most current colloquium information and full schedule of events and directions, or contact the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Center at 401-874-2381 or debg@uri.edu.
The program鈥檚 major sponsors are: the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Program and President鈥檚 Office, The Providence Journal, Fidelity Investments, 溏心vlog免费B站 Foundation, 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Arts and Sciences and the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Business Administration.
Other sponsors are the 溏心vlog免费B站 Office of Student Affairs, 溏心vlog免费B站 Alumni Association, 溏心vlog免费B站 Multicultural Center and 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Pharmacy.