Citizenship and Responsibility in the New World of Uncertainty Keynote lecture of the UNESCO MOST Winter School 2021 by iASK https://youtu.be/8ahcZhTOo6E...
Read MoreThe interview was originally published on Avvenire (Rome). Intervista. Il politologo John Keane: in democrazia serve umiltà Alessandro Zaccuri martedì 16 marzo 2021 Secondo il filosofo «l’attuale crisi dei processi di rappresentanza può essere affrontata consolidando e moltiplicando gli organismi di controllo partecipativo, che fanno...
Read More17 March 2021 Talk of a new Cold War between the US and China emphasizes military capacity and economic prowess. Warrior discourse presents a mono-dimensional situation in which conflict is inevitable. But couldn’t China’s stratospheric rise be better understood and handled...
Read MoreJohn Keane. Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory/Revue canadienne de theorie sociale et politique, Vol.6, No.3, (Fall/Automne,1982). Public opinion...
Read MoreBEGINNINGS Forty years ago, mere mention of the phrase civil society generally caused puzzlement mixed with misunderstanding and confusion.1 The two small words functioned as conversation stoppers. They seemed otherworldly, ghostly, and sterile; they sounded like nonwords. There were exceptions. Talk...
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'El Regreso de la Sociedad Civil', Letras Libres (February 2021) John Keane COMIENZOS Hace cuarenta años, la mera mención del sin- tagma sociedad civil causaba una mezcla de des- concierto, malentendido y confusión. Las dos pequeñas palabras servían para detener la conversación. Parecían...
Read MoreDecoding the new Chinese empire John Keane, Australian Foreign Affairs 11 (February 2021) When future historians look back on our discordant times, they will surely note an epochal shift of global importance: the return of China, after nearly two centuries of humiliation,...
Read MoreDesperacja despotów Prof. John Keane, politolog, o tym, jak ustrój państwa i jakość przywódców wpływają na skuteczność walki z pandemią. JACEK ŻAKOWSKI: – Czego o naszych demokracjach dowiedzieliśmy się przez rok pandemii? JOHN KEANE: – To już rok? 7 stycznia 2020 r. Chiny...
Read More'Hopes for Civil Society', Global Perspectives, 1 (1), August 2020 [gview file="http://www.johnkeane.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/14130-hopes-for-civil-society.pdf"]...
Read More10th June 2010 Do we still need enlightenment values? John Keane, Nigel Warburton, Robert Rowland Smith and Matthew Taylor argue for their ideal enlightenment values for the 21st century. Originally published on The RSA ...
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