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The Realignment

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

The Realignment

The Realignment

Saager Enjeti, Technology, Policy, News, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, Politics, News Commentary, Public Policy, U.s. Politics, National Security, Economics

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Amy Chua, professor at Yale Law School and author of Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, and Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, joins The Realignment to discuss how political and ethnic tribalism undermines American foreign policy and domestic politics.

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0:00.0

Saga and Marshall here, welcome back to the realignment.

0:04.0

So to me it was really obvious, writing in, you know, Marshall mentioned predictive power.

0:14.0

I really did get it right.

0:16.2

In the afterward of the paperback to World On Fire, I predicted it.

0:20.6

I said we just gone into Iraq.

0:22.6

I know everybody's helpful.

0:24.6

But here's what I think is going to happen.

0:26.5

I think that suddenly democratizing in a country where this hated,

0:32.1

Suni's led by Saddam Hussein has been killing, you know,

0:36.0

she isn't oppressing these poor she is for just decades.

0:40.4

Once we have elections, you know what's going to happen?

0:42.6

You're going to see all these demagogues,

0:44.2

she is belonging to the majority saying,

0:47.2

the Sunis are horrible.

0:48.7

There are enemy.

0:49.6

We need to get rid of them.

1:00.5

This week we're very excited to be joined by Yale professor, Amy Chua.

1:05.0

She's a professor there at law school.

1:07.0

More importantly for our purposes, she's written a number of books,

1:10.1

including World On Fire and Political Tribes,

1:13.2

both aimed at dissecting the American foreign policy elite

1:17.0

and what they get completely wrong whenever we're looking

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