JOHN KEANE | JOHN KEANEBIOGRAPHYBOOKSTOPICS OF INTERESTMEDIABLOGCONTACT John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). He is the co-founder and director of the Sydney Democracy Network (SDN). Renowned globally for his creative thinking about democracy, John Keane was educated at the Universities of Adelaide and Toronto (where he was mentored by C.B.Macpherson) and King’s College, University of Cambridge. JOHN KEANE | FEAR AND DEMOCRACY JOHN KEANE | THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DEMOCRACY John Keane’s work brings to life the story of democratic decision-making, representation and monitoring of power from Athens to Westminster and Washington. It is a masterpiece of historical writing and at the same time a major contribution to contemporary debate. This book will have a long and influential life.’. JOHN KEANE | ‘ENTER THE DRAGON: DECODING THE NEW CHINESE Decoding 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, to JOHN KEANE | MARALINGA’S AFTERLIFE The 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 of South Australia. JOHN KEANE | DEMOCRACY The beginning of wisdom in such disputes is to see that democracy, like all other human inventions, has a history. Democratic values and institutions are never set in stone; even the meaning of democracy changes through time. During its first historical phase, which began in ancient Mesopotamia (c. 2,500 BCE) and stretched through classical THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DEMOCRACY ABOUT THE BOOK. John Keane’s The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it posclick to see image – The colonnade verandah on the first floor of the Parliament House, New Delhies along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? JOHN KEANE | STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere. Abstract : We are living in times in which spatial frameworks of communication are in a state of upheaval. The old hegemony of state-structured and territorially-bound public life mediated by radio, television, newspapers and books is being rapidly eroded.

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the American colonies, and by the first moments of the French Revolution, of escaping its clutches.2 Montesquieu was freely read and liberally quoted during this period, THE LEGACY OF MAX WEBER The legacy of Max Weber tration (whether of its internal staff or its external clients) is inscribed within a rule-bound matter-of-factness, aprincipled rejection of doing business on a case­ JOHN KEANE | JOHN KEANEBIOGRAPHYBOOKSTOPICS OF INTERESTMEDIABLOGCONTACT John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). He is the co-founder and director of the Sydney Democracy Network (SDN). Renowned globally for his creative thinking about democracy, John Keane was educated at the Universities of Adelaide and Toronto (where he was mentored by C.B.Macpherson) and King’s College, University of Cambridge. JOHN KEANE | FEAR AND DEMOCRACY JOHN KEANE | THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DEMOCRACY John Keane’s work brings to life the story of democratic decision-making, representation and monitoring of power from Athens to Westminster and Washington. It is a masterpiece of historical writing and at the same time a major contribution to contemporary debate. This book will have a long and influential life.’. JOHN KEANE | ‘ENTER THE DRAGON: DECODING THE NEW CHINESE Decoding 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, to JOHN KEANE | MARALINGA’S AFTERLIFE The 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 of South Australia. JOHN KEANE | DEMOCRACY The beginning of wisdom in such disputes is to see that democracy, like all other human inventions, has a history. Democratic values and institutions are never set in stone; even the meaning of democracy changes through time. During its first historical phase, which began in ancient Mesopotamia (c. 2,500 BCE) and stretched through classical THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DEMOCRACY ABOUT THE BOOK. John Keane’s The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it posclick to see image – The colonnade verandah on the first floor of the Parliament House, New Delhies along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? JOHN KEANE | STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere. Abstract : We are living in times in which spatial frameworks of communication are in a state of upheaval. The old hegemony of state-structured and territorially-bound public life mediated by radio, television, newspapers and books is being rapidly eroded.

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the American colonies, and by the first moments of the French Revolution, of escaping its clutches.2 Montesquieu was freely read and liberally quoted during this period, THE LEGACY OF MAX WEBER The legacy of Max Weber tration (whether of its internal staff or its external clients) is inscribed within a rule-bound matter-of-factness, aprincipled rejection of doing business on a case­ JOHN KEANE | GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY In this timely book, John Keane tracks the recent development of a big idea with fresh potency – global civil society. Keane explores the contradictory forces currently nurturing or threatening its growth, and he shows how talk of global civil society implies a political vision of a less violent world, founded on legally sanctioned power-sharing arrangements among different and intermingling JOHN KEANE | MARALINGA’S AFTERLIFE The 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 of South Australia. JOHN KEANE | SECULARISM? In David Marquand and Ronald L. Nettler (eds) Religion and Democracy, pp. 5–19. 2000, Oxford: Blackwell Publisher. Series: Political Quarterly Special Issues. 100 years ago, secular liberals thought religion would gradually recede from the public sphere and become an exclusively private concern. JOHN KEANE | MORE THESES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY By John Keane From James Tully (ed.), 1988, Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and His Critics, Princeton University Press. Chapter

12, pp. 204-17. 1.

JOHN KEANE | VIOLENCE AND DEMOCRACY Violence and Democracy. In this provocative book, John Keane calls for a fresh understanding of the vexed relationship between democracy and violence.Taking issue with the common sense view that ‘human nature’ is violent, Keane shows why mature democracies do not wage war upon each other, and why they are unusually sensitive to violence. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DEMOCRACY ABOUT THE BOOK. John Keane’s The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it posclick to see image – The colonnade verandah on the first floor of the Parliament House, New Delhies along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? JOHN KEANE | THE NEW CHINESE EMPIRE Originally published in Focus 85 (Johannesburg), June 2019 We live in Shakespearean times marked by a strange but striking fact: despite mounting evidence of waning American global power and the birth of a strident global China, few people dare openly use the word empire. JOHN KEANE | WITTGENSTEIN AND THE DANGERS OF CERTAINTY Wittgenstein and the Dangers of Certainty. Ludwig Wittgenstein, in Swansea, Wales, September 1947. The following notes on the politics of rising uncertainty and the future of democracy were prepared for the inaugural CISS global forum, Peace and Security under

ON THE GOOD CITIZEN

1 John Keane Some Reflections On The Good Citizen* Paper presented at conference on "The Transformation of Civic Life" Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro and JOHN KEANE | MEDIA DECADENCE AND DEMOCRACY Media Decadence and Democracy. Senate Occasional Lecture, Parliament House, Canberra, Friday August 28th 2009. We live in an age of communicative abundance. As in every previous communication revolution, new products and processes—satellite broadcasting, iPhones, electronic books, tweets, cloud computing—have spawned fascination, fear and JOHN KEANE | JOHN KEANEBIOGRAPHYBOOKSTOPICS OF INTERESTMEDIABLOGCONTACT John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). He is the co-founder and director of the Sydney Democracy Network (SDN). Renowned globally for his creative thinking about democracy, John Keane was educated at the Universities of Adelaide and Toronto (where he was mentored by C.B.Macpherson) and King’s College, University of Cambridge. JOHN KEANE | FEAR AND DEMOCRACY JOHN KEANE | ‘ENTER THE DRAGON: DECODING THE NEW CHINESE Decoding 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, to world pre-eminence, and JOHN KEANE | DEMOCRACY The beginning of wisdom in such disputes is to see that democracy, like all other human inventions, has a history. Democratic values and institutions are never set in stone; even the meaning of democracy changes through time. During its first historical phase, which began in ancient Mesopotamia (c. 2,500 BCE) and stretched through classical THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DEMOCRACY ABOUT THE BOOK. John Keane’s The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it posclick to see image – The colonnade verandah on the first floor of the Parliament House, New Delhies along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? JOHN KEANE | STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere. Abstract : We are living in times in which spatial frameworks of communication are in a state of upheaval. The old hegemony of state-structured and territorially-bound public life mediated by radio, television, newspapers and books is being rapidly eroded. JOHN KEANE | THE NEW CHINESE EMPIRE Originally published in Focus 85 (Johannesburg), June 2019 We live in Shakespearean times marked by a strange but striking fact: despite mounting evidence of waning American global power and the birth of a strident global China, few people dare openly use the word empire.

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the American colonies, and by the first moments of the French Revolution, of escaping its clutches.2 Montesquieu was freely read and liberally quoted during this period, JOHN KEANE | IS DEMOCRACY NOT FOR EVERYONE? 4 October 2009 IQ2 Australian Debate Winston Churchill famously said that democracy was the worst form of government - except for all the others that have been tried. In western countries like Australia the universal good of democracy is simply assumed. THE LEGACY OF MAX WEBER The legacy of Max Weber tration (whether of its internal staff or its external clients) is inscribed within a rule-bound matter-of-factness, aprincipled rejection of doing business on a case­ JOHN KEANE | JOHN KEANEBIOGRAPHYBOOKSTOPICS OF INTERESTMEDIABLOGCONTACT John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). He is the co-founder and director of the Sydney Democracy Network (SDN). Renowned globally for his creative thinking about democracy, John Keane was educated at the Universities of Adelaide and Toronto (where he was mentored by C.B.Macpherson) and King’s College, University of Cambridge. JOHN KEANE | FEAR AND DEMOCRACY JOHN KEANE | ‘ENTER THE DRAGON: DECODING THE NEW CHINESE Decoding 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, to world pre-eminence, and JOHN KEANE | DEMOCRACY The beginning of wisdom in such disputes is to see that democracy, like all other human inventions, has a history. Democratic values and institutions are never set in stone; even the meaning of democracy changes through time. During its first historical phase, which began in ancient Mesopotamia (c. 2,500 BCE) and stretched through classical THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DEMOCRACY ABOUT THE BOOK. John Keane’s The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it posclick to see image – The colonnade verandah on the first floor of the Parliament House, New Delhies along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? JOHN KEANE | STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere. Abstract : We are living in times in which spatial frameworks of communication are in a state of upheaval. The old hegemony of state-structured and territorially-bound public life mediated by radio, television, newspapers and books is being rapidly eroded. JOHN KEANE | THE NEW CHINESE EMPIRE Originally published in Focus 85 (Johannesburg), June 2019 We live in Shakespearean times marked by a strange but striking fact: despite mounting evidence of waning American global power and the birth of a strident global China, few people dare openly use the word empire.

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the American colonies, and by the first moments of the French Revolution, of escaping its clutches.2 Montesquieu was freely read and liberally quoted during this period, JOHN KEANE | IS DEMOCRACY NOT FOR EVERYONE? 4 October 2009 IQ2 Australian Debate Winston Churchill famously said that democracy was the worst form of government - except for all the others that have been tried. In western countries like Australia the universal good of democracy is simply assumed. THE LEGACY OF MAX WEBER The legacy of Max Weber tration (whether of its internal staff or its external clients) is inscribed within a rule-bound matter-of-factness, aprincipled rejection of doing business on a case­ JOHN KEANE | BIOGRAPHY John Keane | BIOGRAPHY. Born in southern Australia, John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). He first studied Politics, Government and History at the University of Adelaide, winning the Tinline Prize for a First Class Honours with Highest Distinction

(1971).

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DEMOCRACY ABOUT THE BOOK. John Keane’s The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it posclick to see image – The colonnade verandah on the first floor of the Parliament House, New Delhies along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? JOHN KEANE | GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY In this timely book, John Keane tracks the recent development of a big idea with fresh potency – global civil society. Keane explores the contradictory forces currently nurturing or threatening its growth, and he shows how talk of global civil society implies a political vision of a less violent world, founded on legally sanctioned power-sharing arrangements among different and intermingling JOHN KEANE | SECULARISM? In David Marquand and Ronald L. Nettler (eds) Religion and Democracy, pp. 5–19. 2000, Oxford: Blackwell Publisher. Series: Political Quarterly Special Issues. 100 years ago, secular liberals thought religion would gradually recede from the public sphere and become an exclusively private concern. JOHN KEANE | MARALINGA’S AFTERLIFE The 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 of South Australia. JOHN KEANE | THE NEW CHINESE EMPIRE Originally published in Focus 85 (Johannesburg), June 2019 We live in Shakespearean times marked by a strange but striking fact: despite mounting evidence of waning American global power and the birth of a strident global China, few people dare openly use the word empire. JOHN KEANE | CONTRADICTIONS OF THE WELFARE STATE Contradictions of the Welfare State is the first collection of Offe’s essays to appear in a single volume in English, and it contains a selection of his most important recent work on the breakdown of the post-war settlement. The political writings in this book are primarily concerned with the origins of the present difficulties – what Offe THE LEGACY OF MAX WEBER The legacy of Max Weber tration (whether of its internal staff or its external clients) is inscribed within a rule-bound matter-of-factness, aprincipled rejection of doing business on a case­

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ENTER THE DRAgON 7 ENTER THE DRAGON Decoding the new Chinese empire John Keane When future historians look back on our discordant times, they will surely note an epochal shift of global importance: the

return of China,

COMMENTARIES ‹ THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DEMOCRACY Ralf Dahrendorf. ‘The Life and Death of Democracy is an unusual and extraordinary magnum opus by a notable scholar and author. It is unusual in tracing the history not just of ideas but of democratic institutions, and extraordinary in its range. John Keane’s work brings to life the story of democratic decision-making, representation

and

JOHN KEANE | JOHN KEANEBIOGRAPHYBOOKSTOPICS OF INTERESTMEDIABLOGCONTACT John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). He is the co-founder and director of the Sydney Democracy Network (SDN). Renowned globally for his creative thinking about democracy, John Keane was educated at the Universities of Adelaide and Toronto (where he was mentored by C.B.Macpherson) and King’s College, University of Cambridge. JOHN KEANE | FEAR AND DEMOCRACY JOHN KEANE | THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DEMOCRACY John Keane’s work brings to life the story of democratic decision-making, representation and monitoring of power from Athens to Westminster and Washington. It is a masterpiece of historical writing and at the same time a major contribution to contemporary debate. This book will have a long and influential life.’. JOHN KEANE | ‘ENTER THE DRAGON: DECODING THE NEW CHINESE Decoding 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, to JOHN KEANE | MARALINGA’S AFTERLIFE The 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 of South Australia. JOHN KEANE | DEMOCRACY The beginning of wisdom in such disputes is to see that democracy, like all other human inventions, has a history. Democratic values and institutions are never set in stone; even the meaning of democracy changes through time. During its first historical phase, which began in ancient Mesopotamia (c. 2,500 BCE) and stretched through classical THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DEMOCRACY ABOUT THE BOOK. John Keane’s The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it posclick to see image – The colonnade verandah on the first floor of the Parliament House, New Delhies along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? JOHN KEANE | STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere. Abstract : We are living in times in which spatial frameworks of communication are in a state of upheaval. The old hegemony of state-structured and territorially-bound public life mediated by radio, television, newspapers and books is being rapidly eroded.

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the American colonies, and by the first moments of the French Revolution, of escaping its clutches.2 Montesquieu was freely read and liberally quoted during this period, THE LEGACY OF MAX WEBER The legacy of Max Weber tration (whether of its internal staff or its external clients) is inscribed within a rule-bound matter-of-factness, aprincipled rejection of doing business on a case­ JOHN KEANE | JOHN KEANEBIOGRAPHYBOOKSTOPICS OF INTERESTMEDIABLOGCONTACT John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). He is the co-founder and director of the Sydney Democracy Network (SDN). Renowned globally for his creative thinking about democracy, John Keane was educated at the Universities of Adelaide and Toronto (where he was mentored by C.B.Macpherson) and King’s College, University of Cambridge. JOHN KEANE | FEAR AND DEMOCRACY JOHN KEANE | THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DEMOCRACY John Keane’s work brings to life the story of democratic decision-making, representation and monitoring of power from Athens to Westminster and Washington. It is a masterpiece of historical writing and at the same time a major contribution to contemporary debate. This book will have a long and influential life.’. JOHN KEANE | ‘ENTER THE DRAGON: DECODING THE NEW CHINESE Decoding 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, to JOHN KEANE | MARALINGA’S AFTERLIFE The 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 of South Australia. JOHN KEANE | DEMOCRACY The beginning of wisdom in such disputes is to see that democracy, like all other human inventions, has a history. Democratic values and institutions are never set in stone; even the meaning of democracy changes through time. During its first historical phase, which began in ancient Mesopotamia (c. 2,500 BCE) and stretched through classical THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DEMOCRACY ABOUT THE BOOK. John Keane’s The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it posclick to see image – The colonnade verandah on the first floor of the Parliament House, New Delhies along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? JOHN KEANE | STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere. Abstract : We are living in times in which spatial frameworks of communication are in a state of upheaval. The old hegemony of state-structured and territorially-bound public life mediated by radio, television, newspapers and books is being rapidly eroded.

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the American colonies, and by the first moments of the French Revolution, of escaping its clutches.2 Montesquieu was freely read and liberally quoted during this period, THE LEGACY OF MAX WEBER The legacy of Max Weber tration (whether of its internal staff or its external clients) is inscribed within a rule-bound matter-of-factness, aprincipled rejection of doing business on a case­ JOHN KEANE | MARALINGA’S AFTERLIFE The 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 of South Australia. JOHN KEANE | GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY In this timely book, John Keane tracks the recent development of a big idea with fresh potency – global civil society. Keane explores the contradictory forces currently nurturing or threatening its growth, and he shows how talk of global civil society implies a political vision of a less violent world, founded on legally sanctioned power-sharing arrangements among different and intermingling THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DEMOCRACY ABOUT THE BOOK. John Keane’s The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it posclick to see image – The colonnade verandah on the first floor of the Parliament House, New Delhies along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? JOHN KEANE | VIOLENCE AND DEMOCRACY Violence and Democracy. In this provocative book, John Keane calls for a fresh understanding of the vexed relationship between democracy and violence.Taking issue with the common sense view that ‘human nature’ is violent, Keane shows why mature democracies do not wage war upon each other, and why they are unusually sensitive to violence. JOHN KEANE | SECULARISM? In David Marquand and Ronald L. Nettler (eds) Religion and Democracy, pp. 5–19. 2000, Oxford: Blackwell Publisher. Series: Political Quarterly Special Issues. 100 years ago, secular liberals thought religion would gradually recede from the public sphere and become an exclusively private concern. JOHN KEANE | MORE THESES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY By John Keane From James Tully (ed.), 1988, Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and His Critics, Princeton University Press. Chapter

12, pp. 204-17. 1.

JOHN KEANE | THE NEW CHINESE EMPIRE Originally published in Focus 85 (Johannesburg), June 2019 We live in Shakespearean times marked by a strange but striking fact: despite mounting evidence of waning American global power and the birth of a strident global China, few people dare openly use the word empire. JOHN KEANE | WITTGENSTEIN AND THE DANGERS OF CERTAINTY Wittgenstein and the Dangers of Certainty. Ludwig Wittgenstein, in Swansea, Wales, September 1947. The following notes on the politics of rising uncertainty and the future of democracy were prepared for the inaugural CISS global forum, Peace and Security under JOHN KEANE | MEDIA DECADENCE AND DEMOCRACY Media Decadence and Democracy. Senate Occasional Lecture, Parliament House, Canberra, Friday August 28th 2009. We live in an age of communicative abundance. As in every previous communication revolution, new products and processes—satellite broadcasting, iPhones, electronic books, tweets, cloud computing—have spawned fascination, fear and

ON THE GOOD CITIZEN

1 John Keane Some Reflections On The Good Citizen* Paper presented at conference on "The Transformation of Civic Life" Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro and JOHN KEANE | JOHN KEANEBIOGRAPHYBOOKSTOPICS OF INTERESTMEDIABLOGCONTACT John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). He is the co-founder and director of the Sydney Democracy Network (SDN). Renowned globally for his creative thinking about democracy, John Keane was educated at the Universities of Adelaide and Toronto (where he was mentored by C.B.Macpherson) and King’s College, University of Cambridge. JOHN KEANE | FEAR AND DEMOCRACY JOHN KEANE | ‘ENTER THE DRAGON: DECODING THE NEW CHINESE Decoding 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, to world pre-eminence, and JOHN KEANE | DEMOCRACY The beginning of wisdom in such disputes is to see that democracy, like all other human inventions, has a history. Democratic values and institutions are never set in stone; even the meaning of democracy changes through time. During its first historical phase, which began in ancient Mesopotamia (c. 2,500 BCE) and stretched through classical THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DEMOCRACY ABOUT THE BOOK. John Keane’s The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it posclick to see image – The colonnade verandah on the first floor of the Parliament House, New Delhies along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? JOHN KEANE | STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere. Abstract : We are living in times in which spatial frameworks of communication are in a state of upheaval. The old hegemony of state-structured and territorially-bound public life mediated by radio, television, newspapers and books is being rapidly eroded. JOHN KEANE | THE NEW CHINESE EMPIRE Originally published in Focus 85 (Johannesburg), June 2019 We live in Shakespearean times marked by a strange but striking fact: despite mounting evidence of waning American global power and the birth of a strident global China, few people dare openly use the word empire.

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the American colonies, and by the first moments of the French Revolution, of escaping its clutches.2 Montesquieu was freely read and liberally quoted during this period, JOHN KEANE | IS DEMOCRACY NOT FOR EVERYONE? 4 October 2009 IQ2 Australian Debate Winston Churchill famously said that democracy was the worst form of government - except for all the others that have been tried. In western countries like Australia the universal good of democracy is simply assumed. THE LEGACY OF MAX WEBER The legacy of Max Weber tration (whether of its internal staff or its external clients) is inscribed within a rule-bound matter-of-factness, aprincipled rejection of doing business on a case­ JOHN KEANE | JOHN KEANEBIOGRAPHYBOOKSTOPICS OF INTERESTMEDIABLOGCONTACT John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). He is the co-founder and director of the Sydney Democracy Network (SDN). Renowned globally for his creative thinking about democracy, John Keane was educated at the Universities of Adelaide and Toronto (where he was mentored by C.B.Macpherson) and King’s College, University of Cambridge. JOHN KEANE | FEAR AND DEMOCRACY JOHN KEANE | ‘ENTER THE DRAGON: DECODING THE NEW CHINESE Decoding 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, to world pre-eminence, and JOHN KEANE | DEMOCRACY The beginning of wisdom in such disputes is to see that democracy, like all other human inventions, has a history. Democratic values and institutions are never set in stone; even the meaning of democracy changes through time. During its first historical phase, which began in ancient Mesopotamia (c. 2,500 BCE) and stretched through classical THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DEMOCRACY ABOUT THE BOOK. John Keane’s The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it posclick to see image – The colonnade verandah on the first floor of the Parliament House, New Delhies along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? JOHN KEANE | STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere. Abstract : We are living in times in which spatial frameworks of communication are in a state of upheaval. The old hegemony of state-structured and territorially-bound public life mediated by radio, television, newspapers and books is being rapidly eroded. JOHN KEANE | THE NEW CHINESE EMPIRE Originally published in Focus 85 (Johannesburg), June 2019 We live in Shakespearean times marked by a strange but striking fact: despite mounting evidence of waning American global power and the birth of a strident global China, few people dare openly use the word empire.

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the American colonies, and by the first moments of the French Revolution, of escaping its clutches.2 Montesquieu was freely read and liberally quoted during this period, JOHN KEANE | IS DEMOCRACY NOT FOR EVERYONE? 4 October 2009 IQ2 Australian Debate Winston Churchill famously said that democracy was the worst form of government - except for all the others that have been tried. In western countries like Australia the universal good of democracy is simply assumed. THE LEGACY OF MAX WEBER The legacy of Max Weber tration (whether of its internal staff or its external clients) is inscribed within a rule-bound matter-of-factness, aprincipled rejection of doing business on a case­ JOHN KEANE | BIOGRAPHY John Keane | BIOGRAPHY. Born in southern Australia, John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). He first studied Politics, Government and History at the University of Adelaide, winning the Tinline Prize for a First Class Honours with Highest Distinction

(1971).

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DEMOCRACY ABOUT THE BOOK. John Keane’s The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it posclick to see image – The colonnade verandah on the first floor of the Parliament House, New Delhies along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? JOHN KEANE | GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY In this timely book, John Keane tracks the recent development of a big idea with fresh potency – global civil society. Keane explores the contradictory forces currently nurturing or threatening its growth, and he shows how talk of global civil society implies a political vision of a less violent world, founded on legally sanctioned power-sharing arrangements among different and intermingling JOHN KEANE | SECULARISM? In David Marquand and Ronald L. Nettler (eds) Religion and Democracy, pp. 5–19. 2000, Oxford: Blackwell Publisher. Series: Political Quarterly Special Issues. 100 years ago, secular liberals thought religion would gradually recede from the public sphere and become an exclusively private concern. JOHN KEANE | MARALINGA’S AFTERLIFE The 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 of South Australia. JOHN KEANE | THE NEW CHINESE EMPIRE Originally published in Focus 85 (Johannesburg), June 2019 We live in Shakespearean times marked by a strange but striking fact: despite mounting evidence of waning American global power and the birth of a strident global China, few people dare openly use the word empire. JOHN KEANE | CONTRADICTIONS OF THE WELFARE STATE Contradictions of the Welfare State is the first collection of Offe’s essays to appear in a single volume in English, and it contains a selection of his most important recent work on the breakdown of the post-war settlement. The political writings in this book are primarily concerned with the origins of the present difficulties – what Offe THE LEGACY OF MAX WEBER The legacy of Max Weber tration (whether of its internal staff or its external clients) is inscribed within a rule-bound matter-of-factness, aprincipled rejection of doing business on a case­

ENTER THE DRAGON

ENTER THE DRAgON 7 ENTER THE DRAGON Decoding the new Chinese empire John Keane When future historians look back on our discordant times, they will surely note an epochal shift of global importance: the

return of China,

COMMENTARIES ‹ THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DEMOCRACY Ralf Dahrendorf. ‘The Life and Death of Democracy is an unusual and extraordinary magnum opus by a notable scholar and author. It is unusual in tracing the history not just of ideas but of democratic institutions, and extraordinary in its range. John Keane’s work brings to life the story of democratic decision-making, representation

and

JOHN KEANE | JOHN KEANEBIOGRAPHYBOOKSTOPICS OF INTERESTMEDIABLOGCONTACT John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). He is the co-founder and director of the Sydney Democracy Network (SDN). Renowned globally for his creative thinking about democracy, John Keane was educated at the Universities of Adelaide and Toronto (where he was mentored by C.B.Macpherson) and King’s College, University of Cambridge. JOHN KEANE | FEAR AND DEMOCRACY JOHN KEANE | ‘ENTER THE DRAGON: DECODING THE NEW CHINESE Decoding 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, to world pre-eminence, and JOHN KEANE | DEMOCRACY The beginning of wisdom in such disputes is to see that democracy, like all other human inventions, has a history. Democratic values and institutions are never set in stone; even the meaning of democracy changes through time. During its first historical phase, which began in ancient Mesopotamia (c. 2,500 BCE) and stretched through classical THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DEMOCRACY ABOUT THE BOOK. John Keane’s The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it posclick to see image – The colonnade verandah on the first floor of the Parliament House, New Delhies along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? JOHN KEANE | STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere. Abstract : We are living in times in which spatial frameworks of communication are in a state of upheaval. The old hegemony of state-structured and territorially-bound public life mediated by radio, television, newspapers and books is being rapidly eroded. JOHN KEANE | THE NEW CHINESE EMPIRE Originally published in Focus 85 (Johannesburg), June 2019 We live in Shakespearean times marked by a strange but striking fact: despite mounting evidence of waning American global power and the birth of a strident global China, few people dare openly use the word empire.

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the American colonies, and by the first moments of the French Revolution, of escaping its clutches.2 Montesquieu was freely read and liberally quoted during this period, JOHN KEANE | IS DEMOCRACY NOT FOR EVERYONE? 4 October 2009 IQ2 Australian Debate Winston Churchill famously said that democracy was the worst form of government - except for all the others that have been tried. In western countries like Australia the universal good of democracy is simply assumed. THE LEGACY OF MAX WEBER The legacy of Max Weber tration (whether of its internal staff or its external clients) is inscribed within a rule-bound matter-of-factness, aprincipled rejection of doing business on a case­ JOHN KEANE | JOHN KEANEBIOGRAPHYBOOKSTOPICS OF INTERESTMEDIABLOGCONTACT John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). He is the co-founder and director of the Sydney Democracy Network (SDN). Renowned globally for his creative thinking about democracy, John Keane was educated at the Universities of Adelaide and Toronto (where he was mentored by C.B.Macpherson) and King’s College, University of Cambridge. JOHN KEANE | FEAR AND DEMOCRACY JOHN KEANE | ‘ENTER THE DRAGON: DECODING THE NEW CHINESE Decoding 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, to world pre-eminence, and JOHN KEANE | DEMOCRACY The beginning of wisdom in such disputes is to see that democracy, like all other human inventions, has a history. Democratic values and institutions are never set in stone; even the meaning of democracy changes through time. During its first historical phase, which began in ancient Mesopotamia (c. 2,500 BCE) and stretched through classical THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DEMOCRACY ABOUT THE BOOK. John Keane’s The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it posclick to see image – The colonnade verandah on the first floor of the Parliament House, New Delhies along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? JOHN KEANE | STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere. Abstract : We are living in times in which spatial frameworks of communication are in a state of upheaval. The old hegemony of state-structured and territorially-bound public life mediated by radio, television, newspapers and books is being rapidly eroded. JOHN KEANE | THE NEW CHINESE EMPIRE Originally published in Focus 85 (Johannesburg), June 2019 We live in Shakespearean times marked by a strange but striking fact: despite mounting evidence of waning American global power and the birth of a strident global China, few people dare openly use the word empire.

DEMOCRACY AND FEAR

the American colonies, and by the first moments of the French Revolution, of escaping its clutches.2 Montesquieu was freely read and liberally quoted during this period, JOHN KEANE | IS DEMOCRACY NOT FOR EVERYONE? 4 October 2009 IQ2 Australian Debate Winston Churchill famously said that democracy was the worst form of government - except for all the others that have been tried. In western countries like Australia the universal good of democracy is simply assumed. THE LEGACY OF MAX WEBER The legacy of Max Weber tration (whether of its internal staff or its external clients) is inscribed within a rule-bound matter-of-factness, aprincipled rejection of doing business on a case­ JOHN KEANE | BIOGRAPHY John Keane | BIOGRAPHY. Born in southern Australia, John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). He first studied Politics, Government and History at the University of Adelaide, winning the Tinline Prize for a First Class Honours with Highest Distinction

(1971).

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DEMOCRACY ABOUT THE BOOK. John Keane’s The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it posclick to see image – The colonnade verandah on the first floor of the Parliament House, New Delhies along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? JOHN KEANE | GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY In this timely book, John Keane tracks the recent development of a big idea with fresh potency – global civil society. Keane explores the contradictory forces currently nurturing or threatening its growth, and he shows how talk of global civil society implies a political vision of a less violent world, founded on legally sanctioned power-sharing arrangements among different and intermingling JOHN KEANE | SECULARISM? In David Marquand and Ronald L. Nettler (eds) Religion and Democracy, pp. 5–19. 2000, Oxford: Blackwell Publisher. Series: Political Quarterly Special Issues. 100 years ago, secular liberals thought religion would gradually recede from the public sphere and become an exclusively private concern. JOHN KEANE | MARALINGA’S AFTERLIFE The 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 of South Australia. JOHN KEANE | THE NEW CHINESE EMPIRE Originally published in Focus 85 (Johannesburg), June 2019 We live in Shakespearean times marked by a strange but striking fact: despite mounting evidence of waning American global power and the birth of a strident global China, few people dare openly use the word empire. JOHN KEANE | CONTRADICTIONS OF THE WELFARE STATE Contradictions of the Welfare State is the first collection of Offe’s essays to appear in a single volume in English, and it contains a selection of his most important recent work on the breakdown of the post-war settlement. The political writings in this book are primarily concerned with the origins of the present difficulties – what Offe THE LEGACY OF MAX WEBER The legacy of Max Weber tration (whether of its internal staff or its external clients) is inscribed within a rule-bound matter-of-factness, aprincipled rejection of doing business on a case­

ENTER THE DRAGON

ENTER THE DRAgON 7 ENTER THE DRAGON Decoding the new Chinese empire John Keane When future historians look back on our discordant times, they will surely note an epochal shift of global importance: the

return of China,

COMMENTARIES ‹ THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DEMOCRACY Ralf Dahrendorf. ‘The Life and Death of Democracy is an unusual and extraordinary magnum opus by a notable scholar and author. It is unusual in tracing the history not just of ideas but of democratic institutions, and extraordinary in its range. John Keane’s work brings to life the story of democratic decision-making, representation

and

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