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INTERVIEWS, BOOK REVIEWS, COMMENTS TO LECTURES

 

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	A sunny nature is our best defence against rotten luck Sydney Morning Herald 26-Apr-2010 Page: 9; This is an edited extract from an essay by John Keane, published in the Griffith Review.	2010	PDF
	Reflections on A.C. Grayling’s Liberty in the Age of Terror. A Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Value This book review appears in The Monthly (February 2010) Read A.C. Grayling's reply to John Keane’s review	2010	HTML PDF
	Book review of Democracy Kills. What’s So Good About the Vote? By Humphrey Hawksley This book review first appeared in International Affairs, Chatham House, March 2010	2010	HERE
	Brace yourselves as democracy reshapes itself The Sydney Morning Herald, November 21, 2008	2008	HERE
	The Beauty of Justice Abdolkarim Soroush, Iran’s most prominent and controversial philosopher, talks with John Keane about Justice. This interview was published in the CSD Bulletin, Summer, 2006-07, Vol. 14 No. 1 & 2, University of Westminster Press. Download the PDF of the interview here, the complete Bulletin here.	2007	HERE
	Democracies in name, but not in the real game The Sydney Morning Herald, July 24, 2006	2006	HERE
	John Keane reviews Contention and Democracy in Europe , 1650-2000 By Charles Tilly The Times Higher Education Supplement, 4/11/2005	2005	HERE
	Interview with Professor Lord Bhikhu Parekh Bhikhu Parekh talks to John Keane about the Westminster model, the reform of the House of the Lords, and what he has learned since becoming a peer. This interview was conducted on 26 April 2005 and it was published in the CSD Bulletin, Summer 2005, Vol. 12. N. 2. Professor Lord Bhikhu Parekh is a member of CSD.	2005	HERE
	Ueber die Einbettung des Marktes in die globale Zivilgesellschaft Translated by Philipp Schwertmann for the 2004 Yearbook of the University of Goettingen "Wirtschaft und Zivilgesellschaft", originally from John Keane's Global Civil Society? , pp. 57-91	2004	HTML HERE PDF HERE
	Reflexions o Imperio e a Transicion A Democracia Lecture prepared for the II Encontros de Mondariz Balneario - Organized by Fundación Carlos Casares . Second Session - Tuesday 21st September 2004	2004	HERE
	Eleven Theses on Markets and Civil Society Comments first delivered at ‘Markets and Civil Society', European Civil Society Network Meeting, Madrid, 25th June 2004. (Spanish translation here)	2004	HTML PDF SPANISH
	Remarks on Robert Cooper's Towards a European Army? Read the text of Robert Cooper's Lecture here	2004	HTML PDF
	The Reformation By Patrick Collinson A Book Review by John Keane, published by the The New York Times , 5 December 2004.	2004	HTML PDF
	Petro-Democracy? An interview with Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Fadlallah, Beirut 2003	2003	HTML PDF Word
	In Praise of Meekness. Essays on Ethics and Politics. Norberto Bobbio. A Book Review by John Keane;	2003	HTML PDF Word
	Preface to the Farsi edition of  Civil Society: Old Images, New Visions	2003	PDF
	Maralinga's afterlife The Age, May 11 2003	2003	HTML PDF
	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 in the CSD Bulletin, Summer 2000, Vol. 7. N. 2: 10-13. Quentin Skinner is Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge.	2000	PDF
	On the road to Utopia? John Keane interviews Francis Fukuyama, 'The Weekend Review', The Independent, June 19, 1999	1999	HERE
	New perspectives on social movements, an interview with Alberto Melucci. pp. 180-233, in Alberto Melucci, Nomads of the Present - Social Movements and Individual Needs in Contemporary Society, edited by John Keane and Paul Mier.	1991	HERE
	A Human Face in Prague - A conversation with Václav Havel An interview conducted by Erica Blair (AKA John Keane), Prague, 1986.	1986	PDF