Communitarian Politics in Asia

by Chua Beng Huat

Book Overview

With the collapse of European socialism in the late 1980s, ascendancy of the liberal capitalist democracy and individual self-interest became prevalent in the West. In contrast, many polities in Asia, both by tradition and choice, have explicitly adopted communitarianism as a national ideology, for example Confucianism in Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, Islam in Malaysia and the Panca Sila in Indonesia. Here, communitarianism arguably informs public policies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415334756
• ISBN13: 9780415334754
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.5"