World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
Author: Amy L. Chua
Publisher: Doubleday, New York, 2003; x + 340 pages

MARKET-DOMINANT ethnic minorities have always been targets of violence instigated by the majority when political openness suddenly descends. Although casualties and lessons abound on this matter, the preventive cure is still uncertain.

Just look at the anti-Chinese riots in Ind