Open Dialogue Research Journal
For centuries, political thinkers have debated the foundations of power. Few framed the issue more bluntly than Niccolò Machiavelli, who argued in The Prince that while it is best for a ruler to be both loved and feared, if one must choose, it is safer to be feared than loved. […]
The American president’s chaotic policy is easily explained. He does not want to work with the Chinese; he wants to force them to submit. He strives to develop the MAGA movement, but at the same time encounters resistance from the American population. He wants to end the war between Ukraine […]
For nearly two decades, the idea of a comprehensive EU-India trade agreement hovered somewhere between ambition and inertia. Talks were launched in 2007, stalled repeatedly, and eventually abandoned, becoming a symbol of how difficult it was to reconcile Europe’s regulatory ambitions with India’s protectionist instincts. Yet recently, after a sudden […]
The death of Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervante, better known as El Mencho, marks the end of one of the most violent and powerful chapters in Mexico’s modern criminal history. Killed in a targeted operation by Mexican special forces, the 59-year-old former police officer had spent nearly two decades building and […]
The rapid escalation of the war involving Iran has forced the world’s leading industrial economies to confront an uncomfortable reality: the global energy system remains dangerously vulnerable to geopolitical shocks. As oil prices surge and supply routes through the Persian Gulf face disruption, finance ministers from the Group of Seven are preparing emergency discussions […]
Part I Perhaps the clearest sign that this strategy is working is the ambivalence of Gulf governments themselves. In principle, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and others see Iran as a destabilizing rival that arms proxies, interferes in neighbors and threatens regional order. Yet when Washington openly weighs airstrikes on Iranian […]
Iran’s emerging doctrine for confronting the United States, Israel and the Gulf monarchies is not built around winning battles. It is built around making war too costly to fight. Rather than trying to defeat the US Navy or Israeli Air Force head‑on, Tehran is developing what might be called a […]
When large sections of western Cuba suddenly went dark in early March, the blackout was more than just a technical failure. For millions of Cubans, the loss of electricity exposed the fragile intersection of aging infrastructure, dwindling fuel supplies, and escalating geopolitical pressure. The outage, which affected regions from Pinar […]
Global oil markets rarely react calmly to war in the Middle East, but the latest surge past $100 per barrel reflects more than just market anxiety. It reveals the cascading consequences of a geopolitical gamble taken by Donald Trump’s administration and its closest regional ally, Israel. The recent strikes on Iran conducted jointly […]
Cuba is facing one of its most severe energy crises in decades as a renewed US pressure campaign has choked off vital oil supplies to the island. Just weeks after Washington moved to halt fuel shipments, satellite data analyzed by Bloomberg News show that nighttime light intensity across much of […]
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