Open Dialogue Research Journal
The containment noose around Russia’s western and southern flanks might eventually tighten. Zelensky launched the Carpathian Eight (C8, also the Carpathian Integration Initiative) during a summit in late September. This platform was supposed to include Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Austria, Serbia, Romania, and Hungary, but the latter’s leader later denied that […]
Regardless of however the “friendly competition” evolves between Germany and Poland over leading NATO 3.0 , one thing is certain, and it’s that US-led creative energy diplomacy will likely shape the post-war European security architecture. Reuters cited five unnamed sources to report that US Special Envoy for Russia Jared Kushner […]
Russia might be reluctant to sell lethal equipment to the Taliban amidst its ongoing undeclared war with Pakistan despite the threat posed by ISIS-K to Afghanistan due to concern that they could be used in that conflict at the expense of the hard-earned Russian-Pakistani rapprochement in recent years. The Afghan […]
The new “cordon sanitaire” that Trump 2.0 assembled around Russia, the difficulty in maintaining its Sino-Indo balancing act, and the broken feedback loops that afflict its Foreign Ministry are the main strategic risks that must be urgently addressed in order to most effectively ensure Russia’s future. Putin wisely advised Russians […]
Neither Poland nor Lithuania dares to blockade, let alone invade, this Russian exclave. Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski proposed in mid-September that Poland should “exercise so aggressively on our side (of Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave) as to make … [Russian President Vladimir Putin] uncertain of what we will do, and so […]
It could set into motion a fast-moving sequence of events that meaningfully de-escalates New Cold War tensions provided that Trump agrees to participate in this project as expected. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko just announced that “Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin] and I agreed that Gazprom will join us in implementing the project […]
The EU’s planned creation of an Article 4-like mechanism suggests that European NATO suspects that the bloc’s American leader might not share their threat perception of whatever it may be, which can contextually only refer to Russia, that prompts at least one of them to request urgent consultations. The Financial […]
The German Foreign Minister only had domestic political motives for talking to his Russian counterpart while the Polish one had military-security motives for talking to his Belarusian counterpart. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expressed disappointment after his meeting with his German counterpart Johann Wadephul, which was the first between their […]
Turkiye is Pakistan’s decades-long military-technical partner, fully supports Islamabad’s approach to the Kashmir Conflict, and just entered into an official alliance with it. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters after early September’s SCO leaders’ summit that his country would consider full membership in the bloc. He clarified that this […]
The economic and political costs are much too high, at least for the time being, to make this profitable. The South China Morning Post published an intriguing piece in late August about how China could use the Irtysh-Ob river system to connect to the Arctic Ocean via Xinjiang, Kazakhstan, and […]
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