I hope you enjoyed the festive period. For the past two weeks openDemocracy has been looking back at the best of 2011 with sections preparing front pages of their own. The quality reflects the quite extraordinary year it has been: from the Arab Spring to the London riots; from the prospect of war
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Russia’s unscheduled civil re-awakening dominated openDemocracy front pages this week. Speaking at oDRussia’s timely roundtable (video), prominent journalist Mikhail Fishman declared that Moscow has turned resolutely against the regime.
As Sudan breaks into North and South, is it possible wonders Elfadil Ibrahim for national identities to embrace respectful pluralism? Read on for a summary of publishing highlights in openDemocracy this week...
The appalling fate of the most wonderful pre-industrial human and natural environment on earth, and the way its destruction is simply ignored, is truly shocking. In a classic openDemocracy essay, Hugh Brody takes us to the 50th anniversary of... do you know?
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Umut Özkirimli begins the week warning Europeans that they can no longer rely on outmoded distinctions between 'good' and 'bad' nationalism; Kirsty Hughes marvels at the UK’s influence in Europe vanishing without ‘any serious national debate’; and Paulina Tambakaki notices a curious convergence of
Have the Occupy movements we are covering around the western world gained ground following the concerted evictions of camps in the US? The resulting public outrage could benefit the movement, argues Todd Gitlin, who offers advice as to how the movement should adapt its strategy. Our Editor-in-Chie
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As Europe grinds to a halt, the openDemocracy team is on various continents, attending conferences. Two of these, one looking forwards, one backwards, have made their home with us this week. As the Club de Madrid debates ‘Digital Technologies for 21st Century Democracy’ in New York, Beth Novak rem
