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.

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• Authors: Anthony J Langlois, Anthony J. Langlois, Anthony J. (Associate Professor Langlois, Langlois Anthony J.
• Assisted by: James Cotton (Editor), John Ravenhill (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2001
• EAN: 9780521003476
• ISBN: 978-0-521-00347-6
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; 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