The bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua offers a bold new prescription for reversing our foreign policy failures and overcoming our destructive Political tribalism at home Humans are tribal.
On the left, this has given ris.
There is a pervasive sense of collective persecution and discrimination.
In America today, every Group feels threatened: whites and blacks, Latinos and Asians, men and women, liberals and conservatives, and so on.
As the stunning rise of Donald Trump laid bare, identity politics have seized both the American left and right in an especially dangerous, racially inflected way.
Just as Washington\'s foreign policy establishment has been blind to the power of tribal politics outside the country, so too have American Political elites been oblivious to the Group identities that matter most to ordinary Americans - and that are tearing the United States apart.
If we want to get our foreign policy right - so as to not be perpetually caught off guard and fighting unwinnable wars - the United States has to come to grips with Political tribalism abroad.
In Iraq, we were stunningly dismissive of the hatred between that country\'s Sunnis and Shias.
Every pro-free-market move we made helped turn the Vietnamese people against us.
In the Vietnam War, viewing the conflict through Cold War blinders, we never saw that most of Vietnam\'s "capitalists" were members of the hated Chinese minority.
Time and again this blindness has undermined American foreign policy. the "Axis of Evil" - we are often spectacularly blind to the power of tribal politics.
Authoritarianism, the "Free World" vs.
Communism, Democracy vs.
But because America tends to see the world in terms of nation-states engaged in great ideological battles - Capitalism vs.
In many parts of the world, the Group identities that matter most - the ones that people will kill and die for - are ethnic, religious, sectarian, or clan-based.
We need to belong to groups.
The bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua offers a bold new prescription for reversing our foreign policy failures and overcoming our destructive Political tribalism at home Humans are tribal
