East Meets West by Daniel A Bell
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. This book attempts to chart a middle ground between the extremes of the international debate on human rights and democracy.
"Bell has produced a tour de force of great depth..[A] solid philosophical work, respectful but tough minded, that illuminates East Asian political perspectives and forces Americans to reexamine their own assumptions."--Lucian W. Pye, Foreign Affairs "Daniel Bell has produced a book that is as creative and intriguing as it is scholarly and substantial. He has created three dramatic, engaging, philosophically penetrating dialogues illuminating the 'Asian Values' debate... These dialogues are accessible and even entertaining, but they are also thoroughly researched and tightly argued."--Steven Wrage, Millenium "Bell's East Asian interlocutors express some of the bewilderment felt by the recipients of America's moral advice, and the offer a robust critique... American advocates of human rights tend to argue from principle: East Asians from how things currently are on the ground."--Alex de Waal, London Review of Books "Bell criticizes 'West-centric perspectives,' which assume that every society aspires to the ideal of becoming a Western-style liberal democracy. [This is an] extremely rich new book."--Jerry Burke, Philosophy East & West
Daniel A. Bell is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Public and Social Administration at the City University of Hong Kong He has also taught at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Communitarianism and Its Critics, the coauthor of Towards Illiberal Democracy in Pacific Asia, and coeditor of The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691005089 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691005087 |
| Title | East Meets West |
| Author | Daniel A Bell |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2000-05-28 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
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