Open Dialogue Research Journal
Jerome Powell’s tenure as Chair of the United States Federal Reserve has come to an end, closing one of the most dramatic and controversial chapters in modern central banking history. His leadership, framed by two presidencies of Donald Trump and later renewed under President Joe Biden, has been marked by […]
Ukraine’s dearth of air defenses created a strategic opportunity for Russia to ruthlessly exploit. Russia’s latest large-scale strikes against military targets in Ukraine were incredibly successful after Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Colonel Yury Ignat admitted that not a single missile was intercepted. This came as Ukraine pleaded with nearly 40 of its allies for them to […]
The European Union has delivered the first €3 billion installment of a landmark €90 billion financial assistance package for Ukraine, marking another significant step in Europe’s long-term commitment to supporting Kyiv as the country continues to wage war against Russia while preparing for an eventual post-war recovery. The announcement came […]
Yet again, FIFA, and its chief, Gianni Infantino, have distinguished the game of football by showing what it is all about. Not glorious athletes representing code and country across the globe. Not the sense of wellbeing that comes with exercise. No: it’s all about corrupt manoeuvrings, opaque decisions, and scandalous […]
On the night of June 30, a Ukrainian drone struck a two-story residential building on Khlebnikova Street in Yegoryevsk, Moscow Region. The family was asleep. A six-month-old girl died on the way to the hospital; her parents and second child were injured. The house partially collapsed and caught fire. There […]
Former US national security advisor John Bolton and the President Donald J. Trump share traits neither probably knew they had. The latter, for one, is far more war mongering than he let on to American voters, evidenced by his recently failed, disastrous foray into attacking Iran. Bolton, on the other […]
On June 29th, the Times of Israel headlined “Hezbollah-allied Lebanese parliament speaker says deal with Israel ‘will not pass’”, and this is like if John Thune the Senate Majority Leader were to announce that a treaty which had been negotiated by the U.S., President would not pass in the U.S. Congress (specifically in […]
Part I Although political commentators have offered numerous explanations for Starmer’s downfall, several factors stand out. First, there was a growing mismatch between public expectations and policy outcomes. Labour entered office promising economic renewal, improvements in public services and a more effective relationship between government and voters. Yet governments […]
Throughout most of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Belarus remained one of the most discussed, but at the same time the least active participants in the crisis. Despite its close military and political alliance with Russia, Minsk avoided direct involvement of its armed forces in combat operations, while at the same time […]
Neither average Russians nor the elite are capable of influencing Putin, who’s the only person on the Russian side that decides when the Ukrainian Conflict ends and on what terms, and not even a radical spike in Ukrainian strikes is likely to convince him to de facto surrender like Zelensky […]
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