Translated 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 MoreThere is an old rude saying that diplomats generally have such long noses that they cannot see beyond them. Robert Cooper proves that this is not necessarily the case. His published interviews, memoranda, short essays and his Breaking of Nations...
Read MoreWe respect others' thought as a matter of principle. I believe that if I have the freedom to disagree with others then others have the freedom to disagree with me, and that dialogue will resolve the issue.___________________________________________ An interview with Grand...
Read MoreThe Age, May 11 2003 At Maralinga, the British Government treated Aborigines, Australian servicemen and even its own troops as scientific guinea pigs. John Keane , whose father was there, looks at the dirty games that were played in the desert...
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 MoreOn The Retirement of Václav Havel from Political Life (Published in Czech in Lidové noviny, Prague, 1 February 2003) In recent weeks, here on the western shores of Europe, foreign news desks have been reporting that the Czech polity is having trouble...
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 MoreQuentin Skinner talks to John Keane about Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the neo-Roman theory of liberty. This is an edited extract from a long interview conducted with him in May 2000 by John Keane and Milton Tosto. This text was published...
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