The course is based on the compendium and some additional literature which will be distributed during the course.
Required reading
Articles:
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). Available at the NCHR Library.
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
Richard Robison, ‘The Politics of ‘Asian Values’’, The Pacific Review 9(3) (1996), pp. 309-327. Fulltext:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09512749608719189
Bùi H?i 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
Vu Cong Giao, ‘Prospects and Challenges for Institutional Change in Vietnam: Reflection from the 2013 Constitution’ in Report of Findings: A Baseline Desk Study on Policy Directions and Development Through Vietnam’s Constitutions, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.
Fulltext:
http://rls-sea.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Vu-Cong-Giao_Report-of-Findings_online-version_final.pdf
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 at the NCHR Library. Copies will be distributed.
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 at the NCHR Library. Copies will be distributed.
Doh Chull Shin, Confucianism and Democratization in East Asia, (Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 53-70 and 317-333. Available at the NCHR Library.
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 at the NCHR Library.
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
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
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 at the NCHR Library.
Jerome A. Cohen, ‘Introductory Reflections’, in Mike McConville and Eva Pils (eds.) Comparative Perspectives on Criminal Justice in China (Edward Elgar 2013), pp. 3-12.
Fulltext:
http://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781781955857.00007.xml
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
Andrew Byrnes and Eleanor Bath, ‘Violence against Women, the Obligation of Due Diligence, and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women – Recent Developments’, Human Rights Law Review 8(3) (2008), 517-533.
Fulltext:
http://hrlr.oxfordjournals.org/content/8/3.toc
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 at the NCHR Library.
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
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
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
UN documents are available in fulltext here: http://www.un.org/en/documents/index.html
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, ‘Concluding comments: Indonesia’, 10 August 2007, UN Doc. CEDAW/C/IDN/CO/5
Committee on the Rights of the Child, ‘Concluding observations: China’, 24 November 2005, UN Doc. CRC/C/CHN/CO/2
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, ‘Concluding comments: China’, 25 August 2006, UN Doc. CEDAW/C/CHN/CO/6
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, ‘Concluding comments: Viet Nam’, 2 February 2007, UN Doc. CEDAW/C/VNM/CO/6
Committee on the Rights of the Child, ‘Concluding observations: Indonesia’, 26 February 2004, UN Doc. CRC/C/15/Add.223
Javaid Rehman, ‘The rights of women’ in Javaid Rehman, International Human Rights Law, 2nd edition (Pearson Education Limited, London, 2010), pp.511-553. Available at the NCHR Library.
Javaid Rehman, ‘The rights of the child’ in Javaid Rehman, International Human Rights Law, 2nd edition (Pearson Education Limited, London, 2010), pp.555-598. Available at the NCHR Library.
Recommended reading
Randall Peerenboom, Carole J. Petersen, Albert H.Y. Chen (eds), ‘Human Rights in Asia: A Comparative Legal Study of Twelve Asian Jurisdictions, France and the USA’ (Routledge, 2006). Available at the NCHR Library.
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).