June 4th 1989: Silence, Power and Politics
‘Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must be silent’, wrote the young Ludwig Wittgenstein in his...
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05
June
2015
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John Keane
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The End of Representative Politics?
[caption id="attachment_9806" align="alignnone" width="800"] Acampada, Barcelona, 21/05/1011[/caption] The following notes on the future of democratic representation were...
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20
May
2015
John Keane
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Why Read Tocqueville’s Democracy in America?
The following remarks on a famous work by Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859) were presented...
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08
May
2015
Why Google Is A Political Matter
A public lecture held by the School of Communications at the Hong Kong Baptist University on...
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01
April
2015
General
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Francis Fukuyama’s Political Order and Political Decay
On the eve of the collapse of the Soviet empire, the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama...
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04
March
2015
Talking a bird down from a tree: a conversation with Chee Soon Juan
Singapore is facing political uncertainty with the dominating figure of Lee Kuan Yew in hospital on...
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25
February
2015
Behave Like Sheep! Happy New Year Hong Kong!
Hong Kong Chief Executive, C. Y. Leung (centre), enjoying a photo opportunity where he wished all...
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22
February
2015
Prime Minister Tony Abbott Survives Leadership Spill Motion – John Keane
Q&A: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has survived a party confidence vote on his leadership. Liberal Party MPs...
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09
February
2015
What Yingluck Shinawatra’s Impeachment Means for Thailand
27 January 2015 Late last week saw the impeachment of former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra. Yingluck was...
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27
January
2015
Greece – the Moment of Dignity
During the past three years, several anguished and rather melancholy ‘Democracy Field Notes’ tried to analyse...
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26
January
2015