John Keane is professor of politics at the University of Sydney and the WZB (Berlin). He is the author of many acclaimed books, including The New Despotism (2020) and To Kill A Democracy: India's Passage To Despotism (2021, with Debasish Roy Chowdhury).
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From The Shortest History series comes the complete history of democracy, its champions, and its detractors-from the assemblies of ancient Mesopotamia to present perils This tumultuous global story begins with democracy's radical core idea: We can collab... SEE MORE