Open Dialogue Research Journal
A shop in the Tigrayan capital, Mek’ele, opens every morning with its shelves empty. Its owner, 28-year-old Werkalem Assefa, was forced to close the business after tensions escalated a few weeks ago, and she has moved back in with her mother because she no longer has enough money. “My business […]
In the aftermath of WW II in April 1949, NATO began with the twelve countries on both sides of the North Atlantic: the UK, France, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, the United States, Belgium, Canada, Italy, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland in support of international cooperation without territorial expansion. Russia, which received […]
Britain’s prime minister, Andy Burnham, has said what no recent occupant of Downing Street has said so openly: that he would like to see the United Kingdom rejoin the European Union in his lifetime. In an interview on Monday morning, he said the 2016 decision to leave “has not played […]
On Tuesday, November 10, locals in Varna, Bulgaria, pelted European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s motorcade with eggs and tomatoes, chanting “No war.” Just three days later, the projectile reached the opposite edge of the continent. On Friday, November 13, Sky News correspondent Stephen Murphy posted footage from Dublin […]
Part I On settlements, Eisenkot’s position is mixed. He supports Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank but says it should be “legal” and serve national interests, a remark suggesting opposition to unauthorised outposts. He has criticised settler violence and opposed the government’s plans for the E1 bloc, which Western […]
Poland and the Baltic States would never voluntarily agree to any military-security compromises with Russia, they’d have to be coerced into them, and a European envoy present at the talks where such Russian-US compromises on the post-war security architecture are agreed to could legitimize that. Trump’s Special Envoy to Russia […]
For the past 10 months, Washington and Tehran trade threats, the world watches the nuclear talks and the real bill is being paid in Riyadh, Au Dhabi, and Doha. The six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states are not direct parties to this fight, yet they are absorbing its economic shockwaves, […]
On November 9, 2026, the Financial Times published excerpts from a letter sent by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to European Council President António Costa. The document triggered an acute governance crisis in Brussels. Berlin threatened to block the European Union’s next seven-year budget for 2028–2034 unless all 27 member states […]
They were laying the groundwork for a campaign to foment socio-political unrest. The FSB announced that it detained two Polish spies who “were collecting and transmitting information about military personnel and facilities of the Ministry of Defense, as well as information about the socio-economic situation in the Kaliningrad region, migration, […]
With the formation of the CIS after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the members of this association faced the question of the need to ensure collective security in the post-Soviet space. After preliminary negotiations and agreements on the search for forms of interaction that suited all the CIS countries, […]
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