Human Rights and Asian Values

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Human Rights and Asian Values

Contesting National Identities and Cultural Representations in Asia

International relations Public international law: human rights Immigration law

Authors: Ole Bruun, Michael Jacobsen

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Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 2nd September 2003

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 463 Kb

ISBN: 9781135796266


The Asian challenge to the universality of human rights

The Asian challenge to the universality of human rights has sparked off intense debate. This volume takes a clear stand for universal rights, both theoretically and empirically, by analysing social and political processes in a number of East and Southeast Asian countries.

On the national arenas, Asian values are linked to the struggle between authoritarian and democratic forces, which both tend to convey stereotyped images of the ''west'', but with reversed meanings.

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