There is an old rude saying that diplomats generally have such long noses that they cannot see beyond them. Robert Cooper proves that this is not necessarily the case. His published interviews, memoranda, short essays and his Breaking of Nations...
Read MoreWe respect others' thought as a matter of principle. I believe that if I have the freedom to disagree with others then others have the freedom to disagree with me, and that dialogue will resolve the issue.___________________________________________ An interview with Grand...
Read More(An interview with John Keane in The Straits Times , Singapore 28 December 2003) One of Britain's leading political thinkers points to the signs that it could be replaced by a mediaeval-style collage of unaccountable governing institutions - and the democracy advocate...
Read MoreThe Age, May 11 2003 At Maralinga, the British Government treated Aborigines, Australian servicemen and even its own troops as scientific guinea pigs. John Keane , whose father was there, looks at the dirty games that were played in the desert...
Read MoreThis article by John Keane was published in the New Statesman - Thursday 23rd May 2002 Shortly after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, George Orwell wrote : ‘The great age of democracy and of national self-determination was the age of...
Read MoreTranslated by Teresa Chataway (Polity Press, 2000). (This book review first appeared in CSD Bulletin Volume 9, Number 1, Winter 2001-2002_ PDF Version) Sadly, these essays by the 90-year-old mano maestra of Italian political philosophy may prove to be among his last. Sadder...
Read MoreAn interview with the Czech President's latest biographer (An interview with John Keane conducted by Jan Culik, published on the Central Europe Review, the Vol 1, No 15, 4 October 1999) Central Europe Review : As a well-established political thinker in Britain and...
Read MoreJohn Keane interviews Francis Fukuyama and asks him if the wake proved premature. Source: 'The Weekend Review', The Independent, June 19, 1999 The 'end of history' made a star of Francis Fukuyama. John Keane meets him to ask if the wake proved premature. History...
Read More(Interview with John Keane published by Al-Ahram Weekly 7 - 13 January 1999 Issue No.411) As the Ramadan debates enter their third week, Omayma Abdel-Latif discusses the Islamisation of the West with John Keane 'Secularity has won a reputation for humiliating the Muslims...
Read More(Australia's Challenge to the Imperial Connection An Interview with John Keane By Norma Denny Originally published in Sources - Paris -, Autumn 1997 pp. 37-52) ND. As an Australian and a specialist in political philosophy how do you react to the present debate concerning...
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