Politics of Justice and Human Rights - Southeast Asia and Universalist Theory

Klappentext A major contribution to human rights theory and practice. Zusammenfassung This book! first published in 2001! makes a major contribution to human rights theory and practice! engaging in particular with the 'Asian values' debate. It is especially concerned with the tension between a universal regime of human rights and its ability to accommodate diversity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: 1. Asian values, state elites and human rights; 2. Critical evaluation of the Asian values discourse; 3. The real Asian values debate; Part II: 4. Human rights: political reality, philosophical problem; 5. Human rights as incompletely theorised argument; 6. The return of politics and human rights; Conclusion.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Anthony J Langlois, Anthony J. Langlois, Anthony J. (Associate Professor Langlois, Langlois Anthony J.
• Mitarbeit: James Cotton (Herausgeber), John Ravenhill (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.10.2001
• EAN: 9780521003476
• ISBN: 978-0-521-00347-6
• Seiten: 228
• Serie: Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Recht > Internationales Recht, Ausländisches Recht; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / International, LAW / Public, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, South East Asia, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Human rights, civil rights, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law