Download the full compendium A year on openDemocracy here (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 by Caspar Henderson
- February: Fashionable anti-Americanism by Dominic Hilton
- March: What the hell is civil society? by Neera Chandhoke
- April: Pope John Paul II and democracy by Neal Ascherson
- May: The Great Firewall of China by Becky Hogge
- June: The hidden history of the United Nations by Dan Plesch
- July: Letter from London by Isabel Hilton
- August: Spectral brothers: al-Qaidas world wide web by Faisal Devji
- September: Regarding New Orleans by Rob Walker
- October: Whose al-Qaida problem? by Sasha Abramsky
- November: Washingtons mixed signals on Iraq by Paul Rogers
- December: Kashmir: the tragedy of opportunities by Ohmair Ahmad
