Talk:Bilahari Kausikan

Potential sources

Authored by Bilahari Kausikan

• Kausikan, Bilahari. “Asia's Different Standard.” Foreign Policy, no. 92, 1993, pp. 24–41. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1149143
• Kausikan, Bilahari. "Governance That Works." Journal of Democracy, vol. 8 no. 2, 1997, pp. 24-34. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/jod.1997.0024
• Kausikan, Bilahari. "An East Asian approach to human rights." Buffalo Journal of International Law 2.2 (1995): 263-283.
• Kausikan, Bilahari. "The ‘Asian values’ debate: A view from Singapore." Democracy in East Asia 17 (1998): 20. (no link)
• Bilahari Kausikan (2016) Human Rights: Asia’s Different Standard, Media Asia, 21:1, 45-51, DOI: 10.1080/01296612.1994.11726432
• Kausikan, Bilahari. "Asia in the Trump Era: From Pivot to Peril," Foreign Affairs vol. 96, no. 3 (May/June 2017): p. 146-153.
• Bilahari Kausikan (2008) East and Southeast Asia and the post‐cold war international politics of human rights, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 16:4, 241-261, DOI: 10.1080/10576109308435934
• Bilahari Kausikan, "Asia's Strategic Challenge: Manoeuvring between the US and China - Bell School - ANU". Retrieved 2018-04-28.
• Bilahari Kausikan, International human rights standards neglect Asian values, Human rights : opposing viewpoints. Internet Archive. San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press.
• Kausikan, Bilahari. “The ‘Singapore School.’” The National Interest, no. 36, 1994, pp. 107–108. JSTOR
• Kausikan, Bilahari, et al. Dealing with an ambiguous world. World Scientific Publishing Company Pte. Limited, 2017.
• Bilahari Kausikan, Sovereignty for Small States, Singapore Perspectives 2015. February 2016, 9-15
• Kausikan, Bilahari. "Some Fundamentals of Singapore’s Foreign Policy’." The Little Red Dot: Reflections by Singapore’s Diplomats (2005): 103-7. (no link)

Other authors

• Diamond, Larry Jay & Plattner, Marc F."Hong Kong, Singapore, and "Asian Values"." Journal of Democracy, vol. 8 no. 2, 1997, pp. 9-10. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/jod.1997.0030
• Dellapenna, Joseph W. "Foreword: Symposium on East Asian Approaches to Human Rights," Buffalo Journal of International Law vol. 2, no. 2 (Winter 1995-96): p. 193-200.
• Otto, Dianne. "Rethinking the Universality of Human Rights Law." Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 29 (1997): 1.
• Neier, Aryeh. “Asia's Unacceptable Standard.” Foreign Policy, no. 92, 1993, pp. 42–51. JSTOR.
• Purvis, Nigel. “In Defense of Universal Law: The Perspective of a Government Practitioner.” Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (American Society of International Law), vol. 92, 1998, pp. 244–247. JSTOR.
• Jones, Eric. “Asia's Fate: A Response to the Singapore School.” The National Interest, no. 35, 1994, pp. 18–28. JSTOR.
• McCormick, J., & Mitchell, N. (1997). Human Rights Violations, Umbrella Concepts, and Empirical Analysis. World Politics, 49(4), 510-525. doi:10.1017/S0043887100008030
• Johnson, Scott. “A Challenge for the International Community.” Journal of International Affairs, vol. 47, no. 2, 1994, pp. 602–608. JSTOR.

Other articles written by Bilahari Kausikan

• "1990s 'Asian values' advocate Bilahari explains the real reason behind the 'Asian values' debate". Mothership.sg. Retrieved 2018-04-28 (primary)
• "The "Singapore School" of Asian Values: Down But Not Out?". www.carnegiecouncil.org. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
• Dellapenna, Joseph, Bilahari Kausikan. “An Asian Approach to Human Rights.” Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (American Society of International Law), vol. 89, 1995, pp. 146–152. JSTOR.
• Bilahari Kausikan, "ASEAN-China Relations: Building a Common Destiny?". The American Interest. 2014-09-23. Retrieved 2018-04-28.

Quotes

"The key issue is not the difference between 'Asian' and 'Western' values, let alone the superiority or inferiority of any one set of values to another. It is not even what is distinctively or characteristically Asian about any particular set of values. Today's 'Asian values' debate is basically about Asian societies' future direction and development ... the question now being asked... is how to sustain development over the long term, bearing in mind the pitfalls and dead ends that have confronted many more developed (mainly Western) societies ... In debating 'Asian values,' they are examining such issues as the responsibilities of individuals to society as a whole, the role of family, the integrity of public institutions, and the maintenance of law and order - issues that are also widely debated in the West. Whatever the debate over 'Asian values' may be, then, it is not a clash of civilisations ... The real debate is... about which values, in what degree and in what proportions, are necessary for sustained development, the maintenance of social cohesion, and the avoidance of serious problems... The appropriate balance between different sets of values - between individual rights that guarantee personal freedom, and social issues that stem from the society's needs for stability and discipline - depends on the particular circumstances of each society. The balance in each country will therefore shift over time, and not only in one direction."

[E]fforts to promote human rights in Asia must also reckon with the altered distribution of power in the post-Cold War world... Western leverage over East and Southeast Asia has been greatly reduced...

For the first time since the Universal Declaration [on Human Rights] was adopted in 1948, countries not thoroughly steeped in Judeo-Christian and natural law traditions are in the first rank: That unprecedented situation will define the new international politics of human rights. It will also multiply the occasions for conflict...

The self-congratulatory, simplistic and sanctimonious tone of much Western commentary at the end of the Cold War and the current triumphalism of Western values grate on East and Southeast Asians.

References

Criticism of Kong Hee

This guy has been crazy criticising Kong Hee a Christian pastor, and something should be written here about that... yes, this is in conjunction to what has already him being the "undiplomatic diplomat".... 2001:8003:6A23:2C00:D0:F862:ABBB:2FE8 (talk) 13:11, 20 September 2018 (UTC)