Human Rights in Asia: A Reassessment of the Asian Values Debate

This book offers a critical reassessment of the 'Asian values' debate, which dominated the human rights discourse in the late 1990s, and a reappraisal of the human rights situation in Asia since then. The chapters in this book contextualize the debate and examine in what ways the issues raised then continue to trouble Asian societies.

Author: D. Kingsbury
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/01/2008
Pages: 254
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.70w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780230606395

About the Author
LEENA AVONIUS is Senior Researcher, Renvall Institute for Area and Cultural Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland.

DAMIEN KINGSBURY is Associate Professor, and Associate Head (Research) of the School of International and Political Studies at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.