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In Defense of Universal Law: The Perspective of a Government Practitioner
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2017
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- Clash of Civilizations? Cultural Differences in the Development and Interpretation of International Law
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References
1 Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations (1996).
2 Kausikan, B., Asia ‘s Different Standard, 92 Foreign Pol’y 24–51 (1993)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. The author, a senior official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Singapore, argues for the West to accept the legitimacy of “Asian values.”
3 Id. at 39.
4 Huntington, supra note 1, at 56.
5 The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights, June 24, 1993, U.N. Doc. A/Conf. 157/24(Part 1), at 20-46(13 Oct. 1993). Identical language is in the Beijing Platform for Action from the World Conference on the Status of Women.