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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 – a very good book with a grandness of title redolent of Adam Smith’s Wealth [...]
Petro-Democracy?
We 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 Ayatollah Sayyed Fadlallah, conducted by Professor John Keane in Beirut, December 2003. Translated [...]
Democracy may be heading for extinction
(An interview with John Keane in The Straits Times , Singapore 28 December 2003)
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. PDF Version Here Listen to Audio __________________________________________ Len Beadell stood among [...]
The Triangle of Violence
This article by John Keane was published in the New Statesman – Thursday 23rd May 2002
In Praise of Meekness – Essays on Ethics and Politics
Translated by Teresa Chataway (Polity Press, 2000). (This book review first appeared in CSD Bulletin Volume 9, Number 1, Winter 2001-2002_ PDF Version) _________________________________ Sadly, these essays by the 90-year-old mano maestra of Italian political philosophy may prove to be among his last. Sadder still is the way in which his careless English copy editor [...]
Pricking Havel’s Bottom
An interview with the Czech President’s latest biographer (An interview with John Keane conducted by Jan Culik, published on the Central Europe Review, the Vol 1, No 15, 4 October 1999)
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 is fickle. In 1988, it played a mean trick on Francis Fukuyama. [...]
The Sacred in a Secular Age
(Interview with John Keane published by Al-Ahram Weekly 7 – 13 January 1999 Issue No.411) As the Ramadan debates enter their third week, Omayma Abdel-Latif discusses the Islamisation of the West with John Keane
A land of Cockayne?
John Keane interviews Andre’ Gorz. The interview was published by The New Statesman, 12 May 1989, pp. 26-31). View this article in scanned PDF format (14MB)