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 MoreQuentin Skinner talks to John Keane about Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the neo-Roman theory of liberty. This is an edited extract from a long interview conducted with him in May 2000 by John Keane and Milton Tosto. This text was published...
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 MoreFrom Norberto Bobbio, 1989, Democracy and Dictatorship. The Nature and Limits of State Power, Polity Press. Introduction (vii-xxviii) Read Introduction (vii-xxviii) published in Norberto Bobbio, 1997 in PDF format...
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