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

Klappentext This book, first published in 2001, makes a major contribution to the theory and practice of human rights, engaging in particular with the 'Asian values' debates of the 1990s. It is especially concerned with the tension between a universal regime of human rights and its ability to accommodate diversity. Incorporating original fieldwork from Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, the book also draws out the significance of Southeast Asian developments for international human rights discourse. The book advances beyond the stalemate that the 'Asian values' debate has reached, developing an intermediary stance between the competing claims of universalism and relativism. Drawing on the work of Cass Sustein and Chantal Mouffe, the theoretical contribution of the book will ensure its interest to readers with an interest in human rights. This book is a definitive account of contemporary political discussions of human rights in Southeast Asia and an important contribution to the development of human rights. 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.

Product details

• Authors: 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: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2001
• EAN: 9780521807852
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80785-2
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies; Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; 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