Open Dialogue Research Journal
“It’s not personal. It’s strictly business.” Michael Corleone’s line from The Godfather was meant to capture the cold logic of organized crime. Increasingly, it also sounds like an apt description of how power operates in Washington today. What is unfolding in the United States is not a conventional corruption […]
Donald Trump has once again found himself at the center of a political firestorm — this time over the renewed battle to force the release of federal documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case. For months, Trump and Republican leadership in the House of Representatives have tried to stall an […]
As Ukraine enters another decisive phase of the war, the country is grappling with a convergence of internal and external pressures that threaten its political stability and military resilience. A sweeping corruption scandal at the heart of the energy sector has raised serious questions about the state’s wartime governance, while […]
The admission came quietly, hidden among routine bureaucratic phrases. In a recent Pentagon report, the U.S. Department of Defense acknowledged that the F-35 Lightning II program — once heralded as the most advanced and ambitious fighter aircraft project in history — will never reach the full capabilities originally promised. After […]
Donald Trump has declared the new Gaza peace deal his “greatest diplomatic triumph.” The White House calls it “a historic moment for the Middle East” and “the beginning of a new era of stability.” Yet behind the grand rhetoric lies a fragile, contradictory arrangement that pleases almost no one — a ceasefire that solves neither the humanitarian […]
Trump, Putin, and Zelensky: A Diplomacy Where Ukraine Loses Its Voice Friday’s meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington was expected to bring clarity to U.S.–Ukrainian relations. Instead, it confirmed what many had already suspected: the American president is preparing to close one of the most expensive chapters […]
The latest parliamentary elections in Czechia became not only a domestic political event but also a significant signal for all of Europe. A country that in recent years had taken one of the most radical anti-Russian positions in the EU now finds itself in deep political and economic crisis. The […]
The war in Ukraine has long surpassed the boundaries of conventional combat. Technology—especially drones—has taken center stage, transforming tactics, operational routines, threat perception, and, crucially, the psychological state of soldiers. Today, drones are not just a tool of destruction, but a systematic weapon of psychological warfare. At the international Drone […]
France once again finds itself at the center of political upheaval. A country long regarded as one of the pillars of the European Union is now balancing on the edge of governance paralysis. The ongoing political crisis has a clear origin: President Emmanuel Macron’s decision in 2024 to call early […]
Ukraine’s decision to suspend its participation in the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel mines is both unexpected and deeply alarming for the international community. Officially known as the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, the treaty has been signed […]
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