The course is based on literature available online through Oria and in Canvas.
Required reading
Articles:
Adriaan Bedner, ‘Indonesian Legal Scholarship and Jurisprudence as an Obstacle for Transplanting Legal Institutions’, Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 5 (2013), pp 253-273.
Fulltext: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&pdftype=1&fid=9039439&jid=ROL&volumeId=5&issueId=02&aid=9039438
Andrew Wells Dang, ‘The Political Influence of Civil Society in Vietnam’, in Jonathan London (ed.), Politics in Contemporary Vietnam: Party, State, and Authority Relations, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 162-184. Available in Canvas.
Anja Jetschke, ‘Linking the Unlinkable? International Norms and Nationalism in Indonesia and the Philippines’. In: Thomas Risse, Stephen C. Ropp and Kathryn Sikkink (eds.), ‘The power of human rights: international norms and domestic change”: (Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 134-171. Available in Canvas.
Bell, D. (2000) Introduction, in East Meets West: Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia. By Daniel A. Bell. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000, pp. 3-19. Available in Canvas.
Bjorn Ahl, Exploring Ways of Implementing Human Rights Treaties in China, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 28(3) (2010), pp. 361-403.
Fulltext: http://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/nethqur43&id=1&size=2&collection=journals&index=journals/nethqur
Bùi Hải Thiêm, ‘Pluralism Unleashed: The Politics of Reforming the Constitution in Vietnam’, Journal of Vietnamese Studies 9(4) (2014), pp. 1-32. Fulltext: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/vs.2014.9.4.1?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Christian Ploberger (2017) One Belt, One Road – China’s new grand strategy, Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 15:3, 289-305, DOI: 10.1080/14765284.2017.1346922
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14765284.2017.1346922
Dewen Wang, Rural-Urban Migration and Policy Responses in China: Challenges and Options, ILO Asian Regional Programme on Governance of Labour Migration Working Paper No.15, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, July 2008
Fulltext:
http://www.ilo.org/asia/whatwedo/publications/WCMS_160569/lang--en/index.htm
Doh Chull Shin, Confucianism and Democratization in East Asia, (Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 53-70 and 317-333. Available in Canvas.
FDIH (2015) Demystifying Human Rights Protection in Asia, 699a: https://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/asie669anglaisbassdef.pdf
Gary Rhodan and Caroline Hughes, ‘Accountability Coalitions in the Southeast Asian Context’, in The Politics of Accountability in Southeast Asia: The Dominance of Moral Ideologies (Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 27-57. Available in Canvas.
James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History to Upland Southeast Asia, (Yale University Press, 2009), 178-219 (State Evasion, State Prevention: The Culture and Agriculture of Escape). Fulltext: https://libcom.org/files/Art.pdf
James Leibold, ‘Ethnic Policy in China, Is Reform Inevitable?’, Policy Studies 68 (electronic), East West Center, 2013 Fulltext: http://www.eastwestcenter.org/sites/default/files/private/ps068.pdf
Jones, P. S. (2012) Powering up the people? The politics of indigenous rights implementation:
International Labour Organisation Convention 169 and hydroelectric power in Nepal. International
Journal of Human Rights. ISSN 1364-2987. 16(4), s 624- 647. doi: 10.1080/13642987.2011.627175 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13642987.2011.627175
Khanindra, D. (2017) The Making of One Belt, One Road and Dilemmas in South Asia, China report, 53, 2, pp. 125-142. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0009445517696624
Maria Lundberg, Yong Zhou, ‘Hunting-Prohibition in the Hunters’ Autonomous Area: Legal Rights of Oroqen People and the Implementation of Regional National Autonomy Law’, International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 16 (2009) pp. 349–397 Fulltext: http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/138819009x12474964197638
Middleton, C. and Pritchard, A. (2016) “Chapter 3: Arenas of Water Justice on Transboundary Rivers: A Case Study of the Xayaburi Dam, Laos” (pp 59-90) in Blake, D. and Robins, L. (eds.) Water Governance Dynamics in the Mekong, Region Strategic Information & Research Development Centre: Petaling Jaya.(31 pp). Fulltext: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/575fb39762cd94c2d69dc556/t/59194a213a0411c102546442/1494829656798/Middleton_and_Pritchard_2016_Arenas_of_Justice.pdf
Richard Robison, ‘The Politics of ‘Asian Values’’, The Pacific Review 9(3) (1996), pp. 309-327. Available in Canvas.
Robyn Iredale and Fei Gao, ‘Overview of Minority Migration’ in Robyn Iredale, Naran Bilik and Fei Guo(eds)., China's Minorities on the Move: Selected Case Studies, (Armonk, New York & London, 2003), pp3-32. Available in Canvas.
Simon Butt, ‘Position of International Law within the Indonesian Legal System’, Emory International Law Review 28 (2014), pp. 1-28.
Fulltekst: http://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/emint28&id=6&collection=journals&index=journals/emint
Stokke, Kristian & Törnquist, Olle (2013). Transformative Democratic Politics, In Kristian Stokke & Olle Törnquist (ed.), Democratization in the Global South: The Importance of Transformative Politics. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230370036. Kapittel 13, pp. 3 – 20 Available in Canvas.
Stokke, Kristian; Win, Khine & Aung, Soe Myint (2015). Political Parties and Popular Representation in Myanmar’s Democratization Process. Journal of Current Southeast Asian
Affairs. ISSN 1868-1034. 34(3), s 3- 35 https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jsaa/article/view/904/911
Tae-Ung Baik, Emerging Regional Human Rights System in Asia, (Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 53-154 and pp. 155-232. Fulltext: http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781139058445
Zhou Qi and Andrew J. Nathan ‘Political Systems, Rights and Values’, in Nina Hachigian (ed.) Debating China. The U.S-China Relationship in Ten Conversations (Oxford University Press 2014), pp. 43-66. Available in Canvas.
630 pages in total.
Recommended reading
Hitoshi Nasu and Ben Saul, ‘Human Rights in the AsiaPacific Region: Towards Institution Building’ (Routledge, 2011). Available at the NCHR Library.
Ben Saul and Catherine Renshaw (eds), ‘Human Rights in Asia and the Pacific: International and regional protection of human rights in Asia and the Pacific’. Volume 2 (Routledge, 2014).