Abstract
his book offers an interesting explanation of the problems faced by the American policy makers in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Venezuela as well as in the realm of domestic politics. Each time they failed to read the prevalence of tribalism on the ground. Amy Chua has offered convincing arguments in a very simple and fluid style. To establish her point, she has presented individual case studies of the aforementioned countries and how Washington failed to read communitarian fault lines. She cites scientific studies that deal with the phenomenon of group instinct coupled with personal observations extracted from the conversations she held with students hailing from different ethnic backgrounds. Moreover, there is a variety of primary and secondary data ranging from news stories to the analyses from books, articles, blogs and op-eds.