Debating Human Rights

Critical Essays from the United States and Asia
Herausgeber: Ness, Peter Van

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Human rights debates can provoke strong reactions, particularly among people of different cultural backgrounds. The debate over Asian values and the use of human rights diplomacy are the most obvious manifestations of divisions between Asia and the West and reflect particular world views and historical legacies. In this new book, scholars from the United States and several Asian countries debate fundamental issues such as 'Asian values', 'peaceful evolution' and cultural imperialism. Provocative and challenging essays analyse the debate between East and West, presenting critical perspectives on globalization and human rights diplomacy. Debating Human Rights is an original contribution to a vital area of debate. It presents a uniquely wide diversity of perspectives on controversial issues and demonstrates how scholars and activists who view the world very differently can nonetheless move these debates forward in a search for common ground.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 159mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780415185073
• ISBN-10: 0415185076
• Artikelnr.: 21225003

Autorenporträt

Peter Van Ness is associate professor at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, and research associate, Contemporary China Centre, Australian National University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Contributors. Introduction. Issues in Dispute From Human
Rights to Human Dignity Chandra Muzzaffar. The Human Rights Debate in a era
of Globalization: Hegemony of Discourse. Nikhil Aziz . Asia as a Fount of
Universal Human Rights Edward Friedman . An Asia Perspective on Human
Rights and Freedom of the Press Kishore Mahbubani . Humnan Rights in
Greater China . East Meets West: Human Rights in Hong Kong Linda Butenhoff
. Developmentalism and China's Human Rights Policy Michael J. Sullivan .
Human Rights as Identities: Difference and Discrimination in Taiwan's China
Policy Shih Chihyu . Women's Rights . Reinventing International Law:
Women's Rights as Human Rights in the International Community Radhika
Coomaraswamy . From Vienna ti Beijing: Women's Human Rights Activism ans
the Human Rights Community Manisha Desai . Human Rights and INternational
Relations Human Rights and Developmnent Aid: Japan after the ODA Charter.
Hoshino Eiichi . Human Rights Problems and Current Sino-American Relations
Zhu Feng . From Judge to Participant: The United Sates as Champion of Human
Rights Daniel Wessner . Conclusion.