In 1956, Ivor Jennings suggested that the notion that the people shall decide is ridiculous,
since one must then first decide who constitutes a people. 1 Half a century ago, Jenningse …

Liberal nationalists such as Yael Tamir and Will Kymlicka have argued for an extravagant
range of cultural rights based on respect for individual autonomy. I present an alternative …

Orientalist scholarship in the nineteenth century perceived Asians as the mysterious and
backward people of the Far East. Ironically, as this century has drawn to a close, leaders of …

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Conclusion In speaking of a right in relation to identity formation, I have avoided many
important questions, including questions about how properly to understand identity …

International Human Rights is a classic socio-legal study of the incompatibility and possible
reconciliation of competing views of culture relativism and absolute fundamental human …

The concept of universalism underlies many of the essays in this book as it does the “Asian
Values Debate” as a whole. The core question in the debate is whether human rights are in …

In a recent issue of The International Journal of Human Rights (1/2 Summer 1997) Professor
Chris Brown, a scholar distinguished particularly for his integration of the disciplines of …

Human rights have become a wider and more visible feature of our political discourse, yet
many have also noted the great discrepancy between the human rights invoked in this …

In this essay I use the term'legitimation'(and the associated term'legitimacy') in a doubly
restricted sense: I am referring, first, to the legiti-mation of political systems and, second, only …