An English synopsis of the PhD by Ramón Feenstra University Jaume I of Castellon (Spain) January 2010 INTRODUCTION There are essentially two basic reasons for the preeminent position that reflection on civil society has acquired among theorists of democracy today. The first of these is...
Read MoreSydney Morning Herald 26-Apr-2010 Page: 9; This is an edited extract from an essay by John Keane, published in the Griffith Review. PDF...
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Read MoreMacmillan, London 2009 ISBN 978-0-230-74408-0 This book review first appeared in International Affairs, Chatham House, March 2010, pp. 16-18 PDF John Keane's review: During the past decade, as ‘democracy promotion’ and military campaigns against enemies dubbed ‘terrorists’ gathered pace, war, violence and democracy...
Read MoreA Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Value PDF Bloomsbury, London, Berlin and New York, 2009 ; ISBN 978 1 4088 0242 7 This book review appeared in The Monthly (February 2010) Review's abstract: The latest book of essays by the English liberal philosopher A.C....
Read MoreExtract from the concluding chapter for David Pritchard (ed.), War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens (Cambridge University Press, 2010). The subject of war and democracy, and their potential symbiosis, has recently been brought to life by the fact that virtually all...
Read MoreIn 1945, following several decades that saw most experiments in democratisation fail, there were only a dozen democracies left on the face of the earth. Since then, despite many ups and downs, democracy has bounced back from near oblivion to...
Read MoreBY JOHN KEANE Griffith Review: Edition 28 Still the Lucky Country? (Review's website here); an edited extract from this essay was published by the Sydney Morning Herald 26-Apr-2010, Page: 9 The Lucky Country by Donald Horne is among my treasured Australian books. When first...
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Read MoreThis essay in Spanish appeared in the Revista Encuentros Uruguayos Año II, Número 2, Noviembre 2009, pp. 208-220 In English the text was published in James Tully (ed.), 1988, Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and His Critics, Princeton University Press. Chapter...
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