Debating human rights : critical essays from the United States and Asia / edited by Peter Van Ness ;...
Debating human rights : critical essays from the United States and Asia / edited by Peter Van Ness ;...
Debating human rights : critical essays from the United States and Asia / edited by Peter Van Ness ; with contributions by Nikhil Aziz ... [et al.].
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London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N323/44
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English
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xi, 291 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction / Peter Van Ness -- Pt. 1. Issues in dispute. 1. From human rights to human dignity / Chandra Muzaffar. 2. The human rights debate in an era of globalization: hegemony of discourse / Nikhil Aziz. 3. Asia as a fount of universal human rights / Edward Friedman. 4. An Asian perspective on...
10. Human rights and development aid: Japan after the ODA Charter / Hoshino Eiichi. 11. Human rights problems and current Sino-American relations / Zhu Feng. 12. From judge to participant: the United States as champion of human rights / Daniel Wessner -- Conclusion / Peter Van Ness.
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Publisher
London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
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England
Date Published
1999.
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Summary
Debating Human Rights brings together a very broad range of scholars and activists from Asia and the United States to discuss the problems that so frequently cause division. It includes four opening chapters that cover the broad issues in dispute, such as the impact of globalization and Asian values. There are also separate sections on human rights...
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Debating human rights : critical essays from the United States and Asia / edited by Peter Van Ness ; with contributions by Nikhil Aziz ... [et al.].
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Asia's transformations.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N323/44
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ISBN
0415185068
9780415185066 (hbk.)
0415185068 (hbk.)
9780415185073 (pbk.)
0415185076 (pbk.)
9780415185066 :
0415185068 :
9780415185066
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323.44095
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991011785409702626
