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John Keane studied at the universities of Adelaide, Toronto and Cambridge. He is currently Professor of Politics at the University of Westminster and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB), where his main research focus is the theory and history of democracy. In 1989 he founded the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster. In 1999 Professor Keane wrote an authorised biography of Václav Havel. He also currently researches fear and politics; nationality, citizenship and civil society; secularism; and the future of representative government.
Publications include:
Tom Paine: a political life (1995)
Reflections on Violence (London: Verso, 1996)
Václav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts (London: Bloomsbury, 1999)
Violence and Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
Global Civil Society? (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Life and Death of Democracy (London: Simon and Schuster, 2009)
Source: Professor Keane's homepage and his webpages at the University of Westminster Department of Politics and International Relations and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB)