Friday 23 May, 2003
Changing times in Asia?
Regime change is the phrase on everyone's lips after the ousting of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. It's an idea rich in resonance in East Asia. The region has seen many sudden, often violent changes of government as a result of outside intervention. East Asia also contains the world's most closed societies, like North Korea and Burma, which many policy makers argue are ripe for changing. Does regime change have a future in East Asia? Listen to our special coverage?
Can you - and should you - impose western democracy from outside? Dana Dillon of the Heritage Foundation debates with Thai historian Giles Ungpakhorn of Chulalongkorn University.
Burmese historian Thant Myint U sees uncanny parallels beween present day Iraq and nineteeth century Burma
Paul van Zyl of the Centre for Transitional Justice debates approaches to justice after regime change.
Youk Chang of the Cambodia Genocide Project describes the tortuous search for justice for Khmer Rouge victims
Former United Nations Assistant Secretary General John Ruggie debates whether, post-Iraq, North Korea could be next.
We talk to leading neo-Conservative thinker Richard Perle: is pre-emptiove regime change a model for American foreign policy now?
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