DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN ASIA.

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Pre-requisites: ENGL 201 or permission of instructor. Satisfies: a university graduation requirement–global studies. Western nations criticize Asian countries for failing to respect human rights. This course elucidates the challenges of using Western standards and practices for judging East and Southeast Asian governments in the 21st century. Traditional views on government, crime and punishment, women’s roles, and relations between rulers and their subjects are compared to current practices in Asian nations. Students understand the complexities of state-society relations from Western and Asian perspectives.