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About David Hayes

David Hayes is deputy editor of openDemocracy. He has written textbooks on human rights and terrorism, and was a contributor to Town and Country (Jonathan Cape, 1998). His work has been published in PN Review, the Irish Times, El Pais, the Iran Times International, the New Statesman and The Absolute Game.

Articles by David Hayes

Saturday 2nd January

2010: global cracks, human prospects (part II)

More openDemocracy authors reflect on a volcanic decade in global politics - continued from part I
Tuesday 22nd December

2010: global cracks, human prospects

A volcanic decade in global politics ends amid deep unease about the world’s ability to rise to key 21st-century challenges. openDemocracy writers draw breath and look ahead by reflecting on three questions:

1) What was the most significant trend in the century's first decade?

2) What do you most hope for, and most fear, about the decade to come?

3) What idea do you see fading and/or emerging in 2010 and beyond?

Monday 2nd November

Iran’s hidden prisoners

Those arrested in Iran after the presidential election join the detainees from earlier moments of repression. The blogger and openDemocracy author Hossein Derakhshan is one of the latter. The anniversary of his incarceration is being marked by efforts to publicise his case, reports David Hayes. (This article was first published on 30 October 2009)

1989: moment, legacy, future

How does the great uprising of 1989 look now, in the perspective of twenty years? Many questions still surround the events when “we the people” became the subjects of history in east-central Europe, the Berlin wall fell, the communist governments in the region disintegrated, and the cold war expired. What did people want, and have they got it? What and who made the change possible? Who benefited, who lost? Was it a “real” revolution (and is that a good or bad thing)? If it was not the end of history what was it the start of? Is it too early to be disappointed, or too late to be hopeful? The fact that 1989 was also the year of Tiananmen, the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, Brazil’s return to democracy, and the Iranian fatwa emphasises both its pivotal character and its contemporary resonances. On the anniversary, openDemocracy writers from around the world reflect on 1989 and the world made in its shadow.
Saturday 15th August

Arthur C Helton: a tribute

A voice for human rights, and our friend, died in Baghdad. An openDemocracy salute 
Thursday 23rd July

The moon landing: an openDemocracy symposium

In 1969, our authors commented on a "giant leap for mankind". A tour of openDemocracy's archives
Tuesday 21st July

Somalia: between violence and hope

The conflict in Somalia continues to devour lives. The search for a political solution goes on
Wednesday 24th June

A new politics? Move out of Westminster...

...and let light, air, ideas, energy and people into a modern parliament
Monday 22nd June

Iran's election: people and power

What has happened, and what now, in Tehran? Iranian writers offer their reflections
Friday 15th May

Cambodia: a patient waiting

Cambodia's H1N1 precaution is a case-study in the local mediation of a global epidemic
Tuesday 21st April

Iran’s election and Iran’s system

The presidential vote creates an expectation of change that Iranian conditions may not satisfy
Thursday 2nd April

The G20 and the post-crisis world

The emerging coalitions of protest could shape the politics needed to solve the global crisis
Wednesday 21st January

Barack Obama: hope, fear... advice

A new, young, African-American president opens a fresh political era in the United States and the world. openDemocracy authors offer their thoughts
Friday 9th January

The politics of ME, ME, ME

The shrillness and point-scoring of much net-based discussion is closing the space for politics
Tuesday 4th November

The world's American election: a conversation

Three friends in a London cafe peer across the ocean, and discuss why they care   

Sunday 26th October

A politics of crisis: low-energy cosmopolitanism

The financial breakdown is opening new fissures in the world's political crust
Tuesday 16th September

France's troubled Afghan role

The intensifying Afghan war reverberates in Paris.

Monday 8th September

Japan: suicide by drowning

Another year, another prime minister. Noriko Hama dissects Tokyo's politics

Saturday 23rd August

Russian war, Georgian democracy

What is the war between Georgia and Russia about? Tbilisi's education minister sets out a strong case

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