Description:
By tracing the relativist and universalist arguments of human rights through such issues as criminal justice, women's rights, and ethnicity, the contributors forge a new way of looking at this dichotomy. This new view is articulated as a sort of "chastened universalism," not as concerned with searching for pre-existing common values among different cultures, but for ways to create them.
Brief description: Andrew J. Nathan is Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He is the author of China's New Rulers: The Secret Files (New York Review of Books, 2002) with Bruce Gilley; the co-editor of Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization (Routledge, 2003) with Mahmood Monshipouri, Neil Englehart, and Kavita Philip; and the co-editor of How East Asians View Democracy (CUP 2010) with Yun-han Chu, Larry Diamond, and Doh Chull Shin.
Review Quotes: Rich and complex.-- "International Affairs"