Episode 2 of Season 2 MPIROCast is OUT now🎙️🎧

Join us this week as Ben Sladin takes you through the controversial Asian Values Debate and discusses whether it remains relevant in 2020

More specifically, we are fortunate to have special guest Jake Black join us this week to offer his input on the Asian Values debate in regards to South Korea, while regular co-hosts Erika Soma and Sunniya Wajahat offer their thoughts on this debate from a Japanese and Pakistani perspective

For this week’s subject breakdown, Ben is joined by special guests Lucy Vanderstelt-Gu and Anthony Capp to discuss the internship subject offered in the MIR at the University of Melbourne🏢

As always, if you have any feedback, comments or suggestions—please email us or contact us through social media! 📧

Reading list for the Asian Values debate:

• Thompson M.R 2015, "Democracy with Asian Characteristics," The Journal of Asian Studies 74, no. 4, pp.875-87, www.jstor.org/stable/24738561.
• Shin, D and Kim, H 2016, "Liberal democracy as the end of history: Western theories versus Eastern Asian realities," Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, Sage Publishing, pp.1-21, DOI: 10.1177/2057891116673745.
• Barr M.D 2000, "Lee Kuan Yew and the “Asian Values” Debate," Asian Studies Review, Volume 24, Number 3, Blackwell Publishers, pp.300-334, ISSN 1035-7823.

Special thanks to Wing Kuang and Ben Sladin for editing this episode and thanks to Jamie Blake (@jamie_blake) for the music.

The views expressed on MPIROCast are not representative of MPIRO or the University of Melbourne.