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153 | Amy Chua: How Tribalism Set the World on Fire After 9/11

The Realignment

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Democracy and Markets in Afghanistan

In a lot of countries, markets and democracy will benefit not just different people or different classes, but actually different ethnic groups. So it's very different dynamic than the united states. You know, your markets enriching this little group, and then democracy empowering this angry group that's been left out because of markets. And you're goin to get these demagogues that say, vote for me. They know that democracy can sweep in anti market leaders. It was all ideological right after 9/11: western fundamentalists against Islamic fundamentalism. In afghanistan viit nam, we were completely blind to all these really complicated ethnic and tribal differences on both sides. We need to

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