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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Ilaine who wrote (20136)6/1/2006 4:48:02 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 541320
 
Interesting comment, CB. It's been sometime since I read that book so I may misstate parts of the thesis.

I don't recall she argues that either free markets or democracy (somewhat different things) should not be introduced in countries. But rather that they are not unalloyed goods. Their introduction produces unancticipated consequences, one of which is releasing previously suppressed ethnic conflicts. And since ethnic angers always exist in a stratified way, frequently along class lines, that conflict runs its away along the fault lines of wealth as well.

I read it more as an attempt to do two things. First, to make certain the histories of the rise of free markets and democracy don't suppress the actual history of the violence and ethnic conflict which it includes. And, second, to puncture the balloons of pollyannish policy makers who don't keep the whole picture in mind.
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