Open Dialogue Research Journal
The race to choose the next United Nations secretary general has acquired an uncomfortable test case. The candidacy of Lana Nusseibeh, a minister of state of the United Arab Emirates and a former UAE ambassador to the UN, is reported to be gaining momentum and endorsements. It has also provoked […]
Three days after losing Brazil’s presidential runoff to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro has reportedly left the country. Brazilian media, citing people close to the family, say he is heading to the United States and intends to request political asylum. Argentina’s government has confirmed part […]
Part I Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, al-Qaeda no longer looks like the organization that carried them out. Its numbers have grown, its territory has expanded, and its center of operations has moved thousands of miles from where it began – yet, by most measures, its capacity and […]
Part I Slovakia’s increasingly unconventional foreign policy has attracted disproportionate attention within Europe. Prime Minister Robert Fico’s willingness to maintain dialogue with Moscow while remaining inside both the European Union and NATO has often been interpreted as evidence of ideological divergence from Brussels. Such explanations, however, overlook a more fundamental […]
Twenty-five years after al-Qaeda struck Washington and New York, the organization’s most active theater of operations isn’t in the Middle East or South Asia – it’s in a stretch of West Africa most Americans would struggle to locate on a map. New figures from the conflict monitor Acled show violence […]
Part I Part II Pat III For Democrats, the central problem extends beyond messaging. Policy proposals addressing healthcare expansion, infrastructure investment, child tax credits, or rural broadband may enjoy substantial support when evaluated individually. The difficulty arises when voters question whether national leaders genuinely understand local priorities or intend to […]
For years, Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta operated under an unusual and quietly effective arrangement: a non-aggression pact between two of the region’s dominant criminal organizations kept violence and petty crime low enough that tourism could flourish around some of the country’s most spectacular natural attractions. That arrangement has […]
For much of the post-Cold War period, Slovakia occupied a relatively quiet place in European politics. Nestled between larger Central European powers and deeply integrated into the European Union and NATO, the country rarely shaped continental debates. Today, however, Prime Minister Robert Fico has transformed Slovakia into one of Europe’s […]
Part I Part II The rise of Donald Trump cannot be understood without examining this broader environment of distrust. While discussions of Trumpism often focus on rhetoric, personality, or controversial statements, its electoral success reflects deeper structural conditions that predate his political career. For many voters, Trump did not necessarily […]
Primary night after primary night, a pattern keeps repeating in Democratic contests around the country: candidates running well to the left of the party establishment, often with a fraction of their opponents’ campaign budgets, keep winning. Pundits have spent months debating why. The explanations on offer range from genuine ideological […]
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