Rear 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 MorePublished in David Pritchard (ed.), War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens. Talk delivered at the conference WAR, CULTURE AND DEMOCRACY IN CLASSICAL ATHENS, 4-6 July 2006, University of Sydney. Click here to read PDF format Click here to read the Epilogue in...
Read MorePublished in David Pritchard (ed.), War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens. Talk delivered at the conference War, Culture and Democracy in Classical Athens, 4-6 July 2006, University of Sydney. Watch Videos Here Click here to read PDF format ->Read a review of...
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 MoreProfessor John Keane visited UIN Jakarta and gave a lecture on Humility and Democracy at two places, CSIS and UIN Jakarta, 29 June 2006. Keane's lecture in CSIS was attended by Dr. AS. Hikam, who read Keane's books when Hikam studied...
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 MoreIn John Keane (Editor), 2006, Civil Society: Berlin Perspectives, Oxford / New York, Berghahn Books Sanctuaries of Freedom Among the sadly neglected themes within recent research on civil societies is their intimate connection with urban life. Its absence from the literature on...
Read MoreOrigins Democracy commonly refers to a type of political system in which the people or their representatives lawfully govern themselves, rather than being governed, say, by a military dictatorship, totalitarian party or monarch. In recent decades, democracy in this sense has...
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