Is democracy a universal ideal?
Conferência Gulbenkian Que valores para este tempo? - 27 October 2006. Read lecture in PDF format...
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27
October
2006
Why Democracy?
John Keane
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Does Democracy Have a Violent Heart?
Published in David Pritchard (ed.), War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens. Talk delivered at the conference WAR, CULTURE AND DEMOCRACY IN CLASSICAL ATHENS, 4-6 July 2006, University of Sydney. Click here to read PDF format Click here to read the Epilogue in...
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06
July
2006
John Keane
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Transitions to Democracy
Plenary session addressed by Professor John Keane during the Symposium : "Democracy: Contested Futures" 23 March 2004 at the Centre for Democracy Studies, Oxford Brookes University. The Centre ran a one-day symposium which looked at some the contemporary challenges and issues related...
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23
March
2006
John Keane
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Por que a democracia?
Article in Grial, Revista Galega De Cultura, Número 167 Julio/agosto/septiembre 2005 View and read Spanish PDF format...
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18
January
2005
Remarks on Robert Cooper’s Towards a European Army?
There 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...
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31
January
2004
Against Servitude, CSD Interview with Quentin Skinner
Quentin 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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27
June
2000
John Keane
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On the road to Utopia?
John Keane interviews Francis Fukuyama and asks him if the wake proved premature. Source: 'The Weekend Review', The Independent, June 19, 1999 The 'end of history' made a star of Francis Fukuyama. John Keane meets him to ask if the wake proved premature. History...
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19
June
1999
John Keane
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Democracy and the Decline of the Left
From Norberto Bobbio, 1989, Democracy and Dictatorship. The Nature and Limits of State Power, Polity Press. Introduction (vii-xxviii) Read Introduction (vii-xxviii) published in Norberto Bobbio, 1997 in PDF format...
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05
January
1989