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CULTURAL POLITICS AND ASIAN VALUES IBD

ROUTLEDGE
02 / 2004
9780415338264
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Sinopsis

Cultural Politics and Asian Values looks at the political, cultural and religious background of East and Southeast Asian societies and those of ?the West?, with a view to seeing how they are affecting contemporary national and international politics: democratization, the international human rights discourse, NGOs and globalization.The book surveys the political history and pre-history of the ?Asian values? debate, taking it up to the era of Megawati Sukarnoputri, Chen Shui-bian and Kim Dae-jung. In chapters on Confucianism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity and liberalism, Barr explores the histories and conceptual essences of the world religions involved in or affected by the debate.

PVP
69,16