John Keane

Prof. John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and the WZB (Berlin), and recently taught at Beijing Foreign Studies University. He is renowned globally for his work on democracy and is the author of many books including The Life and Death of Democracy (2009), Democracy and Media Decadence (2013), The New Despotism (2020). He has contributed to The New York Times, Al Jazeera, the Times Literary Supplement, Financial Times, The Guardian, Die Zeit, Hindustan Times and the South China Morning Post. His latest book is The Shortest History of Democracy (2022), which is so far published in 15 languages.