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How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance
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Amy Chua professor, law, Yale University [homepage]

Amy Chua discusses her new book Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance and Why they Fall Law. Yale Law School professor and author of World on Fire, Amy Chua tackles a timely topic. She argues that the key to maintaining power for nations is always to attract and assimilate, rather than to coerce and intimidate, and she traces this remarkable history from ancient Persia to the US in Iraq.

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for the international community to move quickly and boldly in addressing urgent global challenges.
Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi David Wolpe: The Great God Debate
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The polemic "anti-theist" writer Christopher Hitchens engages in "The Great God Debate" with Conservative Jewish leader Rabbi David J. Wolpe. Does God exist? Is religion a force for good or evil in the world? Can ancient texts be squared with modern science? Can morality be divorced from religion?
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Image of Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance--and Why They Fall
Author: Amy Chua
Publisher: Doubleday (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 432 pages
Image of World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
Author: Amy Chua
Publisher: Anchor (2004)
Binding: Paperback, 368 pages
Image of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Author: Amy Chua
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (2011)
Binding: Hardcover, 256 pages

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