About John Keane

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Born in Australia and educated at the Universities of Adelaide, Toronto and Cambridge, John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Westminster and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). In 1989 he founded the Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) . Among his many books are The Media and Democracy (1991), which has been translated into more than twenty-five languages; Democracy and Civil Society (1988; 1998); Reflections on Violence (1996); Civil Society: Old Images, New Visions (1998); the prize-winning biography Tom Paine: A Political Life (1995); and a study of power in twentieth century Europe, Václav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts (1999). Among his most recent works are Violence and Democracy (2004), and Global Civil Society? (2003). (For more details about these and other publications please check Professor's Keane website here)

In recent years, he has held the prestigious Karl Deutsch Professorship in Berlin and served as a Fellow of the influential London-based think-tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). He was recently awarded a Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust. The Times of London has ranked him as one of Britain's leading political thinkers and writers whose work has "a world-wide importance". The Australian Broadcasting Commission recently described him as “one of the great intellectual exports from Australia”.

His current research interests include the future of global governance; fear, violence and democracy; citizenship and civil society in Europe; the history of secularism; public life and freedom of communication in the digital age; eighteenth-century republicanism; the origins and future of representative government; and the philosophy and politics of Islam.

In Germany, Britain, the Netherlands and Australia, he has just presented public lectures on the twenty-first centuries enemies of democracy.

A consultant to the United Nations and the Evolution of Global Values project at the University of Leiden and a recent member of the American-based Institutions of Democracy Commission, he has just completed a full-scale history of democracy - the first for over a century and the subject of a 3-part BBC Radio series to be transmitted in late 2010.

 

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For More information on John Keane visit his personal website: www.johnkeane.net

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German: John Keane ist als wiederkehrender Forschungsprofessor mit einem Viertel seiner Arbeitszeit mit Aufgabenstellungen des WZB befasst und in regelmäßigen Arbeitsaufenthalten in Berlin tätig. Außerdem ist er Professor für Politische Wissenschaft an der University of Westminster (London, www.johnkeane.net, jk@johnkeane.net), wo er das Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) gegründet hat.

Βιογραφικό Σημείωμα

Ο Τζον Κήν είναι καθηγητής Πολιτικής Επιστήμης στο Πανεπιστήμιο του Γουέστμινστερ (University of Westminster) και του Ερευνητικού Κέντρου Κοινωνικών Επιστημών του Βερολίνου (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung) καθώς και μέλος της Βρετανικής Βασιλικής Εταιρείας Τεχνών (Royal Society of Arts). Ιδρυτής του Κέντρου Μελέτης της Δημοκρατίας (Centre for the Study of Democracy), σύμβουλος στα Ηνωμένα Έθνη και πρόσφατο μέλος της Επιτροπής Αμερικανικών Δημοκρατικών Θεσμών (American Institutions of Democracy Comission), οι δημοσιεύσεις του περιλαμβάνουν τα βιβλία Global Civil Society?, Václav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts και το πολυβραβευμένο Tom Paine: A Political Life. Γεννημένος στην Αυστραλία, μένει στο Λονδίνο.