A Place for All? Comparing Civil Societies in Scotland and Northern Ireland , Wednesday 8th September 2004 Some months ago, atop a red double-decker bus near my home in north London, I overheard a mother reprimand her young teenage son, who...
Read MoreDraft lecture prepared for the 9th Open Society Forum, Democracy in Europe, in America, in the World, 23 April 2004, Tallinn, Estonia. Systematic reflection on the transitions to democracy - on the problem of how democratic institutions can be built and...
Read MoreTranslated by Philipp Schwertmann for the 2004 Yearbook of the University of Goettingen "Wirtschaft und Zivilgesellschaft" • Zivilgesellschaftlicher Purismus Welche Kräfte treiben heute die Globalisierung der Zivilgesellschaft voran? Viele Aktivisten und einige ihrer intellektuellen Unterstützer lassen keine Zweifel an der richtigen Antwort:...
Read MoreNearly 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,...
Read MoreRegierungsinstitutionen 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...
Read MoreCentre for the Study of Democracy September 2002 Who does the governing in today’s world? Through which institutions do they govern, in the sense that their decisions structure and confine the fields of judgement and action of actors within global civil society,...
Read MoreTranslated by Teresa Chataway (Polity Press, 2000). (This book review first appeared in CSD Bulletin Volume 9, Number 1, Winter 2001-2002_ PDF Version) Sadly, these essays by the 90-year-old mano maestra of Italian political philosophy may prove to be among his last. Sadder...
Read MoreAn interview with John Keane, from CSD Bulletin Volume 7 No. 1, Winter 1999-2000 The following interview, originally conducted for the CSD Bulletin Volume 7 No. 1, Winter 1999-2000 , provides an introduction to John Keane's life and writings.) By Patrick Burke...
Read MoreThis paper was originally presented as the Southam Lecture at the annual conference of the Canadian Communication Association, Ottawa, ON, May 31, 1998) Canadian Journal of Communication , Vol. 24(1999)165-178 (Here ) Abstract : Modem communications media since the invention of the...
Read MoreIn Adam Michnik, Letters from Freedom: Post-Cold War Realities and Perspectives. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, pp.: 96-113 Click here to read scanned excerpt in PDF format...
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