Citizenship Related Books & Publications
Global Civil Society Civil Society: Old Images New Visions Democracy & Civil Society ...
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12
March
2012
Topics of Interest
General
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Democracy is Failing the Planet
Published 13 February 2012 | St. James Ethics Centre - IQ2 Oz, ABC Big IDEAS Why should we assume that democracy is the best of all political systems? Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets in the Arab world...
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February
2012
General
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The China Labyrinth
Voting in Wukan by Jordan Pouille James Madison famously remarked that a popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy. The present government of the People’s Republic of...
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15
February
2012
Political Reflections on Antarctica – Workshop Description
The 2012 Annual Symposium of The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) Tuesday, 20 November 2012, Canberra Workshop Description Background: Social science perspectives on Antarctica are limited in scope and quantity. In the fields of political science, international relations, legal studies...
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07
February
2012
John Keane
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Interview with BBC World on Václav Havel
BBC World interviews talks to John Keane about Václav Havel, 23 December 2011. ...
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23
December
2011
John Keane
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Remembering the many Václav Havels
During my first encounter with him, in Prague in 1984, when everything seemed hopeless, I was struck by the man's hedgehog resilience. Here was a rarity: an unusual figure, intense but witty, a clear-headed thinker and a wonderful writer, a...
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22
December
2011
John Keane
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Interview with SBS on Václav Havel
SBS World News Australia presenter Anton Enus talks to John Keane, Professor of politics at University of Sydney, 19 December 2011. ...
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20
December
2011
John Keane
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John Keane recalls meeting Václav Havel
An interview about Vaclav Havel with The World Today's Eleanor Hall, ABC Radio, 19 December 2011 Transcript As mourners gather in Prague's Wenceslas Square to pay respect to their late former president, tributes to Vaclav Havel have been pouring in from leaders...
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20
December
2011
John Keane
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Václav Havel: a biographer’s account
Václav Havel has died aged 75. A poet and playwright, a political writer, dissident and a politician, Havel was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia, and the first President of the Czech Republic founded in 1993. The Conversation spoke with...
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19
December
2011
Interview with Al Jazeera on Václav Havel
Al Jazeera English talks to John Keane, Professor of politics at the University of Sydney about Václav Havel, 19 December 2011. ...
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18
December
2011