Open Dialogue Research Journal
In the frozen streets of Kyiv, the war has not paused for geopolitics. Russian airstrikes continue to knock out electricity, heating, and water as temperatures plunge well below zero. Residents speak of drones by sound alone, of explosions that no longer shock but exhaust. Yet while Ukraine endures another brutal […]
By any historical measure, the Federal Reserve has weathered storms before. Wars, financial crises, inflationary spirals, political attacks – all of these have battered the institution that sits at the heart of the world’s largest economy. But the confirmation on Sunday evening that the chair of the U.S. central bank, […]
There are many ways for a prime minister to measure public opinion: polling data, focus groups, constituency surgeries, the editorial pages of national newspapers. Keir Starmer, however, has been granted a far more visceral metric. It echoes through football grounds, darts arenas, nightclubs, and music festivals, carried by the voices […]
For decades, Germany has been regarded in Washington as one of America’s most important partners in Europe: a political heavyweight within the European Union, a global export powerhouse, and a key ally in NATO. But does that assessment still hold true in today’s United States, shaped once again by the […]
The images and reports emerging from Iran are grim and unsettling. Hundreds killed, thousands arrested, the internet cut, and streets filled with fear and anger. It is both morally necessary and human to feel concern for ordinary Iranians caught between economic hardship, political repression, and geopolitical confrontation. But concern must […]
In a scene that captured global attention, former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro appeared before a federal court in Manhattan on Monday, pleading not guilty to multiple criminal charges filed by the United States. The charges include narcoterrorism and conspiracy to import large quantities of cocaine – a dramatic culmination of […]
Information about the strike on Vladimir Putin’s residence has been confirmed from all sides. For Zelensky, this is a way out: to drag out the negotiations even further and continue the war indefinitely, placing all the blame and responsibility on the Russians. However, it is not Joe Biden who is […]
Trump and Zelensky emerged from talks at Mar-a-Lago with a sense of cautious optimism, signaling that while meaningful progress toward a peace framework had been made, no final agreement was in hand and the path to lasting peace would require weeks of further work alongside European allies. The two presidents […]
For more than a decade, Germany was widely praised for opening its doors to people fleeing Syria’s devastating civil war. Beginning in 2011 and accelerating during the 2015 refugee crisis, the country became home to roughly one million Syrians escaping violence, persecution and economic collapse. Today, however, Germany appears to […]
For much of the 20th and early 21st centuries, US presidents rarely stated openly that Latin America was Washington’s strategic backyard. Instead, they relied on diplomatic language about cooperation, democracy and partnership. That era appears to be over. The Trump administration’s newly released National Security Strategy makes explicit what had […]
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