Open Dialogue Research Journal
Every Independence Day, the United States returns to a familiar vocabulary: liberty, equality, popular sovereignty, resistance to tyranny. The words are so deeply embedded in the American national story that they can appear less like political principles than historical facts. Yet the founding of the United States contained a contradiction […]
The most dangerous consequence of the expanding confrontation between Russia, Ukraine and Iran may not be a single dramatic military escalation, but the gradual disappearance of the boundaries separating conflicts that were previously treated as distinct. The war in Ukraine and the confrontation surrounding Iran have developed in different regions, […]
Just a few years ago, the very phrase “European solidarity” sounded almost like a guarantee: for Ukrainians forced to leave their homes, Europe opened its doors wider than its bureaucracy had ever allowed before. EU countries activated the Temporary Protection Directive for the first time in history to swiftly grant […]
Part I In the first part of this report, we examined why Russia’s 2026 State Duma elections will matter far beyond the country’s borders. As one of the principal centers of power in the emerging multipolar world, Russia remains a key actor in international security, energy markets, global trade, and […]
Throughout most of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Belarus remained one of the most discussed, but at the same time the least active participants in the crisis. Despite its close military and political alliance with Russia, Minsk avoided direct involvement of its armed forces in combat operations, while at the same time […]
For nearly a decade, Donald Trump cultivated something unprecedented in postwar transatlantic politics: an informal ideological network of European allies united not necessarily by institutions or treaties, but by political instinct. Leaders such as Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni became symbols of a conservative-nationalist current skeptical of Brussels, […]
There is still enough time before the elections to the State Duma of Russia, yet it is already clear today that the upcoming campaign will matter far beyond the country’s borders. Under normal conditions, parliamentary elections are primarily an internal political process in which citizens determine the composition of the […]
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine is no longer being fought solely on the battlefield. Alongside military operations, an increasingly important struggle is unfolding in international institutions, financial systems, and legal forums. One of the most controversial initiatives to emerge from this process is the Register of Damage for Ukraine […]
The release of new FBI documents related to the Clinton Foundation investigation has once again reopened one of the most politically sensitive questions in modern American politics: does the United States still have equal justice under the law, or has its political system evolved into one where elites operate according […]
The latest warning issued by the Russian Ministry of Defense marks one of the sharpest public escalations in recent months. Moscow stated that any attempt by the Ukrainian authorities to disrupt the celebrations of the 81st anniversary of Victory Day would provoke a “massive retaliatory missile strike” against central Kyiv. […]
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