East Meets West Droits de l'homme et démocratie en Asie de East Est

  • en
  • Broché
  • 9780691005089
  • 28 mai 2000
  • 384 pages
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Résumé

Is liberal democracy a universal ideal? Proponents of ''Asian values'' argue that it is a distinctive product of the Western experience and that Western powers shouldn't try to push human rights and democracy onto Asian states. Liberal democrats in the West typically counter by questioning the motives of Asian critics, arguing that Asian leaders are merely trying to rationalize human-rights violations and authoritarian rule. In this book--written as a dialogue between an American democrat named Demo and three East Asian critics--Daniel A. Bell attempts to chart a middle ground between the extremes of the international debate on human rights and democracy.


Bell criticizes the use of ''Asian values'' to justify oppression, but also draws on East Asian cultural traditions and contributions by contemporary intellectuals in East Asia to identify some powerful challenges to Western-style liberal democracy. In the first part of the book, Bell makes use of colorful stories and examples to show that there is a need to take into account East Asian perspectives on human rights and democracy. The second part--a fictitious dialogue between Demo and Asian senior statesman Lee Kuan Yew--examines the pros and cons of implementing Western-style democracy in Singapore. The third part of the book is an argument for an as-yet-unrealized Confucian political institution that justifiably differs from Western-style liberal democracy.


This is a thought-provoking defense of distinctively East Asian challenges to Western-style liberal democracy that will stimulate interest and debate among students of political theory, Asian studies, and international human rights.

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Langue
en
Version
Broché
Date de sortie initiale
28 mai 2000
Nombre de pages
384
Illustrations
Non

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Auteur principal
Daniel A. Bell
Editeur principal
Princeton University Press

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235 mm
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152 mm
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159 mm
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235 mm
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229 mm
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539 g
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Non

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9780691005089

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