Politics of People's War and Human Rights in Nepal by Bishnu Pathak (2005)

Politics of People's War and Human Rights in Nepal by Bishnu Pathak (2005)




Along with the end of the former USSR in 1991, the persistent competition between socialism and
capitalism also disappeared and USA stood alone as the world’s superpower. The politico-ideologi-
cal divide of 20th century has manifested into identity-based national or regional conflicts, socio-
cultural conflicts, ethnic conflicts, and religious conflicts or resource-based domination of a developed
country over developing one, as the Western versus non-Western bloc in 21st century. The
emerging superpower China and its rising alliance with Buddhist, Hindu, and Islamic societies (such
as North Korea, Singapore, Vietnam, Japan, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Malaysia, Paki-
stan, Sudan, Syria, and Yeman, Burma, Cuba, etc.) appears as a strong threshold to the Western
bloc, particularly to the USA.
Despite very significant economic development and politico-ideological differences, the four Confu-
cian countries, China, North Korea, Singapore, and Vietnam, had made a united appeal against
human rights imperialism of the United States of America in the Second World Conference on Human
Rights held in Vienna in June 1993. These Asian countries raised the questions related to univer-
salism versus cultural relativism and civil and political rights versus the right to development and
solidarity in reference to the origin of human rights in the West.








Bibliographic information
for Politics of People's War and Human Rights in Nepal
Title Politics of People's War and Human Rights in Nepal
Author Bishnu Pathak
Publisher BIMIPA Publications, 2005
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized 2 Sep 2008
ISBN 9993393908, 9789993393900
Length 490 pages