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Book SynopsisThe order of international relations in Asia is predominantly state-centric. It is one based primarily on absolute national sovereignty, exclusive national identity and patriotic national citizenship. This sovereignty-based or state-centered order, however, has been challenged and progressively undermined by a people-centric order that is governed by ideals of global citizenship and principles of global justice. In this people-centric order, the emergence of a new form of politics in which citizens are empowered by various non-governmental organizations that serve to define and influence world politics is envisaged. Clearly, such an order clashes with the prevailing Asian national sovereignty-based model.This book provides a systematic descriptive, explanatory and normative analysis of the clash of normative orders in Asia, and develops an analysis of Asian responses to the challenge posed by a more diffuse people-centric order and the implications this may have for global justice.The book aims to study two paradigms of political order — a national statist sovereignty-based order and a people-centric order, analyze the conflict between two diverse political paradigms within an Asian setting, and assess the various challenges a people-centric order poses for a sovereignty-based order. It also aims to address the paucity of Asian normative thinking through a synthesis of intellectual sources and normative theories. It applies, tests, revises and develops Western normative theories of the people-centric order.It is a must read for students and researchers who are interested in the theoretical debates — especially Asian voices — on normative issues in Asia.
Table of ContentsIntroduction; Asian Assertiveness and its Normative Poverty; The Western Normative School: The People-Centric Order; Methodology: Testing and Dialogue; Structure of the Book; Popular Sovereignty: Challenges to Sovereignty; Referenda and the National Identity/Boundary Question; Transnational Civil Society and the National Identity Question; Cosmopolitanism: Cosmopolitan Democracy and the National Identity Question; The Variety of Cosmopolitanism in Europe and Asia and their Cosmopolitan Engagement (with Gerard Delanty); Cosmopolitan Citizenship and Transnational Activism; An Empirical World of Cosmopolitan Asia (with Kevin Brown); Global Justice: Theories of Global Justice: An Asian Perspective; Global Justice and Cultural Equality; Global Social Justice at the WTO? (Hannah Murphy); Global Justice and Indigenous Rights; Conclusion: Towards a People-Centric Order and Global Justice;
