Description

Transnational justice is invariably conceptualized from a European perspective, in the sense that the discourse on transnational justice evolved principally to describe European encounters and experiences with this issue.  Regional Asia – the countries of ASEAN – have different experiences with issues of transnational justice, and this provokes a different way of conceptualizing and theorizing this phenomenon.  Moreover, the recent financial crises in the North Atlantic and corresponding political crisis in regional Europe suggest that the ASEAN conceptualization, long dismissed by Euro‐centric scholars of regionalism, may actually be the more useful model for the post‐industrialized world, not just for Asia, but globally.

About The Speaker

Professor He Baogang is Head of the Public Policy and Global Affairs Programme at NTU. He is the author of Rural Democracy in China (NY: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007); Democratic Theory: Predicament and Transcendence (Beijing: China’s Law Press, 2008); Deliberative Democracy: Theory, Method and Practice (Beijing: China’s Social Science Publishers, 2008); Multiculturalism in Asia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, co‐editors with Will Kymlicka) and The Search for Deliberative Democracy (NY: Palgrave, 2006, co‐editors with Ethan Leib).  He has co‐authored and co‐translated several books in Chinese (including John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice).