Open Dialogue Research Journal
The escalating conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran has produced many moments of geopolitical tension and military uncertainty. Yet few incidents have provoked as much outrage and concern as the February 28 strike on an elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab. The attack on the […]
The recent joint attack by the United States and Israel on Iran marks a dramatic and dangerous escalation in the Middle East. According to security expert Roland Popp of the Military Academy at ETH Zurich, the assault was not a spontaneous response to an imminent nuclear threat but the culmination […]
For decades, the Franco-German partnership has been described as the “engine of Europe”. In Munich, that engine looked stalled. And what emerged from three days of speeches, panels and corridor diplomacy was not primarily a widening gulf between Europe and the United States. Instead, it was the deepening fractures within […]
Germany’s prosperity rested on a carefully balanced triangle of relationships with the world’s major powers for decades. Cheap Russian energy fueled its industry, China absorbed its exports and integrated German firms into global growth, and the United States guaranteed security while anchoring Germany to the western political and economic order. […]
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, is sliding toward one of the worst hunger crises in its modern history. According to warnings from the UN World Food Programme (WFP), nearly 35 million people could face acute food insecurity in the coming months. Behind this staggering figure lies a deadly convergence of […]
The release of more than three million documents connected to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein has reignited long-standing questions about whether his sex-trafficking operation extended beyond him and his convicted accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell. The newly disclosed materials, made public by the US Department of Justice, contain allegations suggesting that Epstein […]
On February 6, 2026, a shocking attack in Moscow sent ripples far beyond Russia’s capital. A gunman opened fire on Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev, the First Deputy Chief of Russia’s Main Directorate of the General Staff, as he was leaving his apartment. Multiple shots were fired at close range before […]
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 […]
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