2007

 

The Beauty of Justice

Abdolkarim Soroush, Iran’s most prominent and controversial philosopher, talks with John Keane about Justice. This interview was published in the CSD Bulletin, Summer, 2006-07, Vol. 14 No. 1 & 2, University of Westminster Press. Download the PDF of the interview here, the complete Bulletin here.

2006

Democracies in name, but not in the real game

The Sydney Morning Herald, July 24, 2006
here

 

2005

 

John Keane reviews Contention and Democracy in Europe , 1650-2000 By Charles Tilly

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 4/11/2005

 

Interview with Professor Lord Bhikhu Parekh

Bhikhu Parekh talks to John Keane about the
Westminster model, the reform of the House of the Lords, and what he has learned since becoming a peer. This interview was conducted on 26
April 2005 and it was published in the CSD Bulletin, Summer 2005, Vol. 12. N. 2. Professor Lord Bhikhu
Parekh is a member of CSD.

2004

 

Ueber die Einbettung des Marktes in die globale Zivilgesellschaft

Translated by Philipp Schwertmann for the 2004 Yearbook of the University of Goettingen "Wirtschaft und Zivilgesellschaft", originally from John Keane's Global Civil Society? , pp. 57-91

 

Reflexions o Imperio e a Transicion A Democracia

Lecture prepared for the II Encontros de Mondariz Balneario - Organized by Fundación Carlos Casares . Second Session - Tuesday 21st September 2004

The Spanish text of this Lecture is available in the following formats:

 

Eleven Theses on Markets and Civil Society

Comments first delivered at ‘Markets and Civil Society', European Civil Society Network Meeting, Madrid, 25th June 2004.

 

Remarks on Robert Cooper's Towards a European Army?

Read the text of Robert Cooper's Lecture here

 

The Reformation
By Patrick Collinson

A Book Review by John Keane, published by the The New York Times , 5 December 2004. The text of this review is available in the following formats:

 

2003

 

Petro-Democracy?

An interview with Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Fadlallah, Beirut 2003. The text of this interview is available in the the following formats:

 

In Praise of Meekness.
Essays on Ethics and Politics.
Norberto Bobbio.

A Book Review by John Keane; the text of this review is available in the following formats:

Preface to the Farsi edition of  Civil Society: Old Images, New Visions

 

Maralinga's afterlife

The Age, May 11 2003

2000

Against Servitude, CSD Interview with Quentin Skinner

Quentin 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 in the CSD Bulletin, Summer 2000, Vol. 7. N. 2: 10-13. Quentin Skinner is Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge.

1999

 

On the road to Utopia?

John Keane interviews Francis Fukuyama, 'The Weekend Review', The Independent, June 19, 1999

1991

New perspectives on social movements, an interview with Alberto Melucci.

pp. 180-233, in Alberto Melucci, Nomads of the Present - Social Movements and Individual Needs in Contemporary Society, edited by John Keane and Paul Mier.