John Keane
John Keane is the founder of Sydney Democracy Initiative and a professor of politics at the University of Sydney and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin. His books include Global Civil Society? and The Life and Death of Democracy.
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'How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism' By Eric Hobsbawm
John Keane
My first scholarly encounter with Eric Hobsbawm happened one afternoon at the London School of Economics, in the late spring of ’89. We...
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Comment: UK Elections
John Keane
Last month’s hung parliament in the British election confirms a basic rule of modern politics: whenever markets fail, representative...
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Liberal Fundamentalist: AC Grayling's 'Liberty in the Age of Terror'
John Keane
In Liberty in the Age of Terror: A Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Values (Bloomsbury, 304pp; $35.00), English liberal...
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Where to, Democracy?: John Keane in conversation with Lindsay Tanner
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Australian-born John Keane is ranked by The Times of London as one of Britain's leading political thinkers and...
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