Democratic Governance in Northeast Asia: A Human-Centered Approach to Evaluating Democracy
Comprising case studies of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, this edited volume explores the key characteristics of democratic governance in Northeast Asia. Each democracy is assessed on the extent to which it enables the flourishing of social capital; prio
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Democratic Governance in Northeast Asia
Security, Development and Human Rights in East Asia Series Editor: Brendan Howe, Department Chair and Professor, Ewha Womans University, South Korea
Security, development and human rights are the ‘three pillars’ of the United Nations, and the foundation of global governance. Increasingly human-centred perspectives have come to dominate the discourse and policy platforms in these fields. The East Asian region has traditionally been viewed, however, as a region of conservative and state-centric policy prescription, resistant to the new governance models. In terms of security, East Asian governments and regional organizations have championed power-political and Westphalian concepts of self-help, territorial integrity, political sovereignty, and non-intervention. State-centric economic development has assumed such prominence in the region as to be termed ‘econophoria’ whereby the solution to all challenges is sought through some form of national development project or developmental state. Finally, on the question of rights, Asian perspectives are seen by some to pose a communitarian and cultural relativist epistemological challenge to the dominant liberal universalist discourse. Nevertheless, the globalization of governance norms has had an increasing impact on the region. The democratization of information, multi-media penetration, the exponential growth of civil society, and discourse cross-fertilization between disciplines and between peoples, has led to increased challenges to the governance functionality and moral primacy of the state. East Asia is also the source of some of the most interesting and innovative governance initiatives across all three pillars. The series, therefore, undertakes to reflect different aspects of these dynamics in the ‘Asian Century’.
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137550453.0001
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This series considers the emergence of new governance modalities in East Asia, and the challenges they face, through the prisms of human security, human development, and human rights analysis.
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