Listen to Audio [audio mp3="http://www.johnkeane.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/jk_abc_paine.mp3"][/audio] Wednesday 26 July 2006, 6pm Thomas Paine English-American writer and revolutionary Thomas Paine had a profound influence on the French revolution, the American Revolution and English radicalism. And his ideas shaped the way all of us understand the concept...
Read MoreProfessor John Keane returned to the University of Sydney stage to deliver the Sydney Ideas public lecture entitled 'What's Happening to Democracy?'. 24 July 2006. Abstract: Just over a decade ago, talk of the global triumph of democracy beamed around the...
Read MoreProfessor John Keane returned to the University of Sydney stage to deliver the Sydney Ideas public lecture entitled 'What's Happening to Democracy?'. 24 July 2006. Abstract: Just over a decade ago, talk of the global triumph of democracy beamed around the...
Read MoreRear Vision presents a two-part series on the history of democracy, from its beginnings in 2,500 BCE to today. GuestsJohn Keane Professor of Politics at the University of Westminster and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB) and founder of the Centre...
Read MoreTalk delivered at the conference WAR, CULTURE AND DEMOCRACY IN CLASSICAL ATHENS, 4-6 July 2006, University of Sydney. Read, Watch and listen to John Keane presenting his talk click for Text here. Watch Part 1 [vc_video link='https://youtu.be/uA-imIC6YFY'] Watch Part 2 [vc_video link='https://youtu.be/DUxVF2pEJ6U'] Watch...
Read MoreAt the beginning of the 21st century, 'nation building' has become a catch-cry of the worldwide project to spread democracy - from East Timor and the Solomon Islands, to Iraq and Afghanistan, Western governments are engaged in exporting democracy and...
Read MorePlenary session addressed by Professor John Keane during the Symposium : "Democracy: Contested Futures" 23 March 2004 at the Centre for Democracy Studies, Oxford Brookes University. The Centre ran a one-day symposium which looked at some the contemporary challenges and issues related...
Read MoreInterview published by Istanbul's main newspaper,Sabah, 25 September 2005 Medya ve Demokrasi kitabinin yazari Prof. Dr. John Keane bir dizi konferans için geldigi Türkiye'de demokrasinin pek çok sartinin yerine getirildigini söylüyor. Keane kullanilmasi gereken kavramin 'Türkiyeli' oldugunu da savunuyor. Demokrasi arastirmalari...
Read More(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....
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