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MAR 4, 1996 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 4 (Spring 1996): Three Years After the Bangkok Declaration: Articles: What Asians Think About the West's Response to the Human Rights Debate
New-found national pride pits Asian countries against a "decadent West." Constant pressure to observe human rights obligations, often applied with threats of economic sanctions, is ...
MAR 4, 1996 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 4 (Spring 1996): Three Years After the Bangkok Declaration: Articles: The Task for Asians: To Discover their Own Political Morality for Human Rights
The search for a coherent political morality within the Pacific Rim countries is not a contest between Asians and Westerners, but a ...
DEC 12, 1995 • Article
Nizer Lectures (1994–1998): America and the World: Isolationism Resurgent?
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. argues for a reexamination of the Wilsonian doctrine of collective security and a greater concentration on preventive diplomacy, to enhance the ...
DEC 4, 1995 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 3 (Winter 1995): International Human Rights and Asian Commitment: Articles: A Brief History of the Modern Human Rights Discourse in China
Given the logic of communist ideology—that the working people are the masters in society—human rights did not make much sense. After all, the ...
DEC 4, 1995 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 1, Number 3 (Winter 1995): International Human Rights and Asian Commitment: Articles: Authoritarian Culture and the Struggle for Human Rights in Thailand
A Hindu notion of divine kingship and a feudal absolute monarchy have reinforced authoritarianism as the dominant political culture from ancient to present-day ...