This episode explores the challenge for Australia as it enters a new era, in which China’s international sway increases and democracies compete with their rivals for global influence. Join Jonathan Pearlman and guests John Keane and Linda Jaivin. Background reading: John Keane, “Enter...
Read MoreThe Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI) at the University of Technology Sydney welcomed John Keane, Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney, to discuss his new book When trees fall, monkeys scatter (World Scientific, 2017). In the global China debate, When trees...
Read MoreWelcome to episode 10 of Season 2 of Real Democracy Now! a podcast. Today my guest is Professor John Keane. John is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin. He is also the co-founder and director...
Read MoreCo-hosted by Sydney Ideas, the Post-Truth Initiative and the Sydney Democracy Network This is part of the Festival of Democracy 2017 There are many signs we’ve entered a ‘post-truth’ era defined by the burial of ‘objective facts’ thanks to a public avalanche of ‘appeals to emotion...
Read MorePolitical scientist and author John Keane on the recent proliferation of corrupt political regimes that employ democratic rhetoric, staged elections, social media and economic growth to cultivate public loyalty and give the appearance of legitimacy. Presented by Peter Mares. "These rulers...
Read MoreSunday 11 June 2017 10:30AM IMAGE: HOW WELL IS OUR DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL SYSTEM SET UP FOR THE FUTURE? (LINK TO LARGER IMAGE. / Flickr CC BY 2.0) It’s been four years since we last spoke with leading democracy scholar John Keane. Back then he...
Read MoreThursday 17 November 2016 8:05PM (view full episode) Across Europe, the US and Asia right-wing political parties have created what Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, termed "galloping populism." Movements like the Sweden Democrats, the National Front in France, the...
Read MoreWhere do we place the victory of President-elect Donald Trump in terms of global politics? Recently we've seen the success of UK conservatives with the Brexit vote, electoral gains for right-wing parties in Europe, and the election of Philippines strongman President...
Read MoreAired on Thursday 10 September 2015 11:30AM Over the last five years, the phenomenon of mass displacement and forced migration has posed intractable political problems for Western nations and sparked an upsurge in popularity for Europe's anti-immigrant political parties. In recent weeks the...
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