Open Dialogue Research Journal
Part I Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, al-Qaeda no longer looks like the organization that carried them out. Its numbers have grown, its territory has expanded, and its center of operations has moved thousands of miles from where it began – yet, by most measures, its capacity and […]
The Kiev regime’s attacks on Yandex data centers in several Russian cities have taken the military confrontation to a new level. Earlier, similar strikes were carried out by the Russian army as part of a Special military operation on the territory of Ukraine controlled by the Kiev regime. Thus, as […]
Sub-Saharan Africa is growing a little faster than expected, and that is notable because the global background is hostile. In its semi-annual Africa Economic Update, published on Tuesday, the World Bank projected regional growth of 4.3% in 2026, up from 4.1% last year and 0.3 percentage point above its April […]
A young woman suffers years of sexual abuse as a child and is sentenced to death for murder at the age of 18. She spends nearly three decades on death row, much of that time in near-solitary confinement, before the authorities decide to execute her. The woman, now 50 years […]
Russia could legally transfer ownership of its frozen assets to the US, which would then be returned to Russia in exchange for US stakes in its energy industry that could also deter Ukrainian attacks against it, but Trump will first have to obtain what would then be the US’ frozen […]
razil-presidential-elections- Recently, Brazil voted in an election that matters far beyond its borders. The leftwing incumbent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is reported to be neck and neck with Flávio Bolsonaro, son of the former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro. A first round on Sunday is to be followed by a […]
The Middle East’s strategic landscape is fracturing. As the US-led security architecture erodes, a volatile triangle emerges, defined by rivalry and exploitation. At its heart lies the turbulent Turkey-Israel relationship. For decades, it oscillated between cooperation and crisis. Today, it enters a more dangerous phase, and no actor benefits from […]
On 8 October Kirill Budanov spent about twenty hours in the Bulgarian capital. His meeting with Prime Minister Rumen Radev stayed confidential at Budanov’s request. The next day former Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov posted a photo of the two of them. The government had to admit it. On 14 October […]
A protest movement that began in late September at a single Paris suburb high school over teacher shortages has, within roughly two weeks, grown into a nationwide confrontation involving thousands of arrests, serious injuries to teenagers, and a government struggling to contain a crisis it clearly didn’t see coming. The […]
While governments allocate billions to armaments, young people are told that there is no money for education, affordable housing, or climate policies. From London to Paris and Brussels, they are no longer putting up with it and are questioning the foundations of our society. From London to Paris A spectre […]
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