Open Dialogue Research Journal
At the opening of the 2026 Munich Security Conference, European leaders delivered a coordinated message to Washington: the transatlantic relationship must be renewed, not undermined. Against the backdrop of sharp rhetoric and policy tensions under U.S. President Donald Trump, officials from France, Germany, the United Kingdom and beyond sought to project unity, […]
The opening of the Winter Olympic Games in Italy was remarkable not for spectacle, innovation, or controversy, but for restraint. There were no grand ideological statements, no aggressive moral messaging, no attempt to turn the ceremony into a political performance. Compared to the Paris Summer Olympics, whose opening became a […]
In recent days of February 2026, global media have been actively discussing a new executive order by the U.S. President, which introduces a mechanism of additional ad valorem duties—up to 25% or more—on goods imported into the United States from any country that directly or indirectly purchases, imports, or otherwise […]
The sharp rise in tensions between the United States and Iran in early 2026 has once again pushed the Middle East to the edge of a major conflict. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned of a possible “regional war”, the United States has deployed a powerful aircraft carrier […]
There were never the sharpest negotiators in the room, resembling a facsimile of Bertie Wooster in desperate need of the good advice of his manservant Jeeves. The Australian defence establishment has yet to find a wise head who will finally tell them that the A$368 billion AUKUS pact between the […]
It’s also the enemy of Europe’s conservative-nationalists, who’d be left leaderless if Kiev and Brussels succeed in ‘democratically deposing’ Orban during early April’s next parliamentary elections and replacing his leadership of their movement with a collection of anti-Russian Polish figures. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban recently declared that “As long as Ukraine […]
Update El Golpe Blando (Soft Coup) was discussed on October 14, 2015 by a small group of prominent Cuban intellectuals and politicians. The meeting took place on the sidelines of a conference organized by the Centro de Investigaciones de Politica Internacional (CIPI), a Research Centre and Think Tank affiliated to the Ministry of Foreign […]
The latest release of millions of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein has done little to calm public anger. Instead, it has intensified long-standing suspicions that the full truth about one of the most notorious abuse scandals in modern US history remains deliberately obscured. Despite the disclosure of more than three […]
From outside the United States, it has become increasingly difficult to reconcile the image America once projected with the spectacle it now offers the world. The country that long styled itself as a champion of liberty, democracy, and the rule of law increasingly resembles something darker: a place of masked […]
Armenia might have to accept the return of the ~200,000 Azeris who fled during the chaotic Soviet collapse (and the descendants), grant them equal language rights, teach in schools that they consider Armenia to be “Western Azerbaijan”, and possibly agree to a Schengen-like deal with Azerbaijan. Vice President JD Vance’s […]
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