John Keane is Director of the newly-founded Sydney Democracy Network (SDN) at the University of Sydney and Professor of Politics at the WZB in Berlin. He is the author of Democracy and Media Decadence (2013) and his The Life and Death of Democracy (2009) has just appeared in Japanese translation.
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Published in: HomeRefolution in the Arab world
A new word is needed to describe these events of recent months. They should be called ‘refolutions’, radical...
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Published in: HomeLibya, intellectuals and democracy: an open letter to Professor David Held
John Keane asks David Held to look back over events and reconsider his reactions to a dissimulator. Was this an...