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Petro-Democracy?

We 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...

30 December 2003

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Democracy may be heading for extinction

(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...

28 December 2003

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Laurie Taylor's BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed

Listen to Audio John Keane with Naomi Klein and Neera Cahndhoke, talks of global Democracy deficit - November, 6, 2002. Democracy Laurie Taylor talks Naomi Klein, Neera Chandhoke and John Keane, who have different ideas of how to fill a perceived global democractic...

06 November 2003

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Maralinga’s Afterlife

The 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...

11 May 2003

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Fallout at Maralinga

BBC Radio 4 programme, Fallout at Maralinga, presented by John Keane, 29 April 2003. BBC webpage here For half a century, the Tjarutja aboriginal people of Maralinga have waited to get to get their land back. The land is now said by the...

29 April 2003

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

Nearly thirty-five years ago, the French scholar and publicist Raymond Aron poured ice-cold water on a brand new idea at its moment of birth. ‘There are no such animals as “European citizens” ’, wrote Aron. ‘There are only French, German,...

31 March 2003

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Der Elfenbeinturm und die Zivilgesellschaft [1]

Regierungsinstitutionen haben im letzten Jahrhundert einen spektakulären Effekt in bezug auf die Förderung des Hochschulwesens gehabt. Angetrieben von einer Vielfalt politischer Ziele und Annahmen wie militärischer Kompetenz, Nationalstolz, liberaler Überzeugung gegenüber dem Einfluss der Hochschulbildung, aber vor allem von der...

19 January 2003

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The Abdicator

On The Retirement of Václav Havel from Political Life (Published in Czech in Lidové noviny, Prague, 1 February 2003) In recent weeks, here on the western shores of Europe, foreign news desks have been reporting that the Czech polity is having trouble...

19 January 2003

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Petro-Democracy?

Democracy may be heading for extinction

Laurie Taylor's BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed

Maralinga’s Afterlife

Fallout at Maralinga

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

Der Elfenbeinturm und die Zivilgesellschaft [1]

The Abdicator

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