(Interview with John Keane published by Taipei Times, 2, June, 2005. Page 2) Democracy is an extraordinary invention and viewing it from a humble perspective is an innovative way to safeguard existing democracies, a visiting academic from the UK said yesterday. John Keane,...
Read MoreBorn in Australia and educated at the Universities of Adelaide, Toronto and Cambridge, John Keane is now professor of politics at the University of Westminster in England and is also the founder of the center for the Study of Democracy....
Read More(Interview with John Keane published by the Times of India , the 12th of March 2005) The case of democracy is a case of unfulfilled expectations. Timely elections have become a ritual, yet the system does not deliver on expectations. This is true....
Read MoreInterview with John Keane published by the Indian Express , the 5th of March 2005 The question is: What is so good about democracy? This deserves urgent revisiting, argues John Keane, professor of Politics at the University of Westminster, because in our...
Read Moreيک نگاه اروپايی به رابطه آمريکا و ايران داريوش محمد پور گفتگو با جان کين استاد علوم سياسی دانشگاه وست مينستر لندن آقای کين اظهارات اخير کاندوليزا رايس، وزير خارجه آمريکا، را بسيار تکان دهنده تلقی می کند آغاز دوره دوم رياست جمهوری جورج...
Read More229 pp. New York : The Modern Library, Random House. $21.95 A Book Review by John Keane From New England comes the old joke about a high school history lesson. Teacher : ‘Why did the Puritans leave England for America?' A pupil :...
Read MoreThere 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...
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