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# A year on openDemocracy
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/3145/
- Published: 2005-12-21T00:12:00.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:52:19.000Z
- Author: Open democracy
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 19:27

**Download the full compendium A year on openDemocracy** [**here**](https://www.opendemocracy.net/content/articles/PDF/Compendium%5F2005.pdf) **(Adobe pdf).**

This compendium of a year on **openDemocracy** is your choice – the most-read articles from an eventful year. It began and ended with the fury of nature, from the tsunami to the earthquake in Kashmir. In between the London bombings, the death of the Pope, the devastation of New Orleans and the continuing war in Iraq. There are reports and analysis of conflict and of civil society, of Chinese internet censorship and the hidden history of the United Nations.

We hope you will enjoy this catch up – and reminder of what you most enjoyed in 2005.

- January: “[Tsunami coming for us all](https://www.opendemocracy.net/articles/View.jsp?id=2301)” by Caspar Henderson
- February: “[Fashionable anti-Americanism](https://www.opendemocracy.net/articles/View.jsp?id=2325)” by Dominic Hilton
- March: “[What the hell is “civil society”?](https://www.opendemocracy.net/articles/View.jsp?id=2375)” by Neera Chandhoke
- April: “[Pope John Paul II and democracy](https://www.opendemocracy.net/articles/View.jsp?id=2399)” by Neal Ascherson
- May: “[The Great Firewall of China](https://www.opendemocracy.net/articles/View.jsp?id=2524)” by Becky Hogge
- June: “[The hidden history of the United Nations](https://www.opendemocracy.net/articles/View.jsp?id=2519)” by Dan Plesch
- July: “[Letter from London](https://www.opendemocracy.net/articles/View.jsp?id=2655)” by Isabel Hilton
- August: “[Spectral brothers: al-Qaida’s world wide web](https://www.opendemocracy.net/articles/View.jsp?id=2768)” by Faisal Devji
- September: “[Regarding New Orleans](https://www.opendemocracy.net/articles/View.jsp?id=2804)” by Rob Walker
- October: “[Whose al-Qaida problem?](https://www.opendemocracy.net/articles/View.jsp?id=2892)” by Sasha Abramsky
- November: “[Washington’s mixed signals on Iraq](https://www.opendemocracy.net/articles/View.jsp?id=3060)” by Paul Rogers
- December: “[Kashmir: the tragedy of opportunities](https://www.opendemocracy.net/articles/View.jsp?id=3091)” by Ohmair Ahmad