This volume is the product of research undertaken by a multinational team of emerging intellectual leaders in Asia Pacific under the directorship of Han Sung-Joo, president of the Ilmin International Relations Institute at Korea University and former foreign minister of Korea. This research project on the theme of "Values, Governance, and International Relations" was launched in April 1997, jus…
Can Asians think? Are we at the end of the Western epoch? Is Western civilisation universal? Does the West promote human rights for altruistic reasons? Is Japan adrift? Why has Southeast Asia not become the Balkans of Asia? These are some of the questions Kishore Mahbubani has sought to answer in his personal ruminations over the years. This volume of essays and speeches brings together for the…
This text provides an examination of one of the most controversial issues in Asia today - how the region reconciles its homegrown values with the conflicting and often Western values of modernization, globalization and economic development. In a series of chapters, each devoted to a country, the book explores just what "Asian values" - a highly charged term in modern Asia - means to the individ…