Open Dialogue Research Journal
Ursula von der Leyen’s proposal to make Canada the European Union’s first-ever “associate member” produced one of the more theatrical moments of this week’s State of the European Union address: lawmakers rising to their feet, the Commission president crossing the chamber to embrace Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in person. […]
Twenty people landed in Monrovia this week as the opening installment of an agreement that will eventually send up to 1,200 deportees from the United States to Liberia – a west African nation with no direct connection to most of the people it’s about to receive. The arrangement is being […]
When the Brexit withdrawal agreement set up a residence scheme for British nationals already living across the EU, the design assumed a baseline of fairness: reasonable deadlines, flexibility for people who missed them, and proportionality when weighing an individual’s circumstances against procedural failure. Four years on, the country where that […]
For most of six years in Donald Trump’s orbit, Natalie Harp occupied a role that was essential but largely invisible to the public: the aide who followed him with a portable printer, fed him curated headlines, and drafted the social media posts that would later carry his name. That obscurity […]
In the hills of Emilia-Romagna, an industry that predates the Renaissance is quietly facing a very modern stress test. Italy’s Parmigiano Reggiano producers rely on a financing system built around vaults – literal “cheese banks” – where wheels of the cheese age for one to three years or more before […]
The transition of power within Britain’s governing Labour Party is gathering pace, but behind public displays of unity, tensions appear to be running high. As Andy Burnham becomes the country’s next prime minister, his first formal meeting with ex-Prime Minister Keir Starmer reportedly exposed the political and personal strains created […]
A rare joint statement from Britain, France, and Germany has highlighted growing international concern over China’s increasingly assertive activities in waters east of Taiwan, underscoring how maritime disputes in the Indo-Pacific are becoming a matter of global strategic importance rather than merely a regional issue. The coordinated response from the […]
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 […]
Europe is often described today through the language of decline. Headlines speak of political fragmentation, economic stagnation, demographic pressures, migration disputes, security threats, and the growing power of authoritarian rivals. Surrounded by Vladimir Putin’s Russia, pressured by Donald Trump’s unpredictable America, and challenged by Xi Jinping’s increasingly assertive China, Europe […]
For years, Hunter Biden occupied a unique place in American politics. To his critics, particularly within the MAGA movement, he represented everything they believed was wrong with the Biden family – a symbol of privilege, scandal, addiction, and alleged corruption. His personal struggles became campaign material, his legal problems generated […]
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