May 8, 2018
What are political tribes, and how do they influence domestic and international politics? How has blindness to group instinct led to follies in U.S. foreign policy? How can nations deal with groups as basic political units? Find out in this episode, featuring Professors Amy Chua and Bill Burke-White!
Amy Chua is the John M. Duff Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She is an expert in ethnic conflict, and globalization and the law. Her most recent book, "Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations," studies how tribalism causes problems at home and abroad. She is also the author of the 2011 memoir, "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother."
0:20 – Intro conversation between Mike Horowitz and Bill Burke-White
8:25 – Chua's biographical background.
12:00 – What are political tribes?
14:54 – What are the defining characteristics of a tribe?
17:10 – How can the U.S. better understand tribalism abroad.
22:05 – What can be done about tribalism, both domestically and internationally?
28:40 – How should international law, which traditionally focuses on the state, integrate the realities of tribal politics?
30:30 – What is the most important challenge that the world must face over the next two years?
31:40 – What is the most important challenge that the world must face over the next twenty years?
32:35 – Interesting Global Fact.
33:45 – Career advice for students.
35:10 – Cause for optimism.
Music and Produced by Tre Hester