Open Dialogue Research Journal
A growing confrontation is unfolding between governments around the world and major American technology platforms – one that goes far beyond regulation and touches the core of how speech is controlled in the digital age. Recent developments in Europe, Asia, and Latin America suggest that this is no longer a […]
Europe may soon face another energy crisis — this time triggered not by supply disruptions within the continent but by escalating military tensions thousands of kilometers away. The confrontation involving United States, Israel, and Iran is already reshaping global energy markets, pushing prices higher and threatening the fragile recovery of […]
Every Olympic cycle revives the familiar slogan that sport exists beyond geopolitics. The Winter Games of 2026 were once again framed by organizers and officials from the International Olympic Committee as a celebration of unity, neutrality, and fair play. Yet the reality unfolding across arenas and podiums suggests something very […]
The opening of the Winter Olympic Games in Italy was remarkable not for spectacle, innovation, or controversy, but for restraint. There were no grand ideological statements, no aggressive moral messaging, no attempt to turn the ceremony into a political performance. Compared to the Paris Summer Olympics, whose opening became a […]
In recent years, Europe has actively proclaimed its “support for democracy” and “protection of human rights,” urging Russians dissatisfied with Moscow’s policies to leave the country and seek asylum. Finland and Lithuania have played a prominent role in receiving so-called “relocants”. On paper, these countries promised protection, integration, and social […]
When the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) began publishing documents tied to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation in December 2025, it was billed as a groundbreaking act of transparency. The release was required under the newly enacted Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed into law just weeks earlier by President Donald Trump, and […]
The publication of tens of thousands of Jeffrey Epstein documents promised transparency and accountability. Yet, years after his death, no major political career has been toppled, and systemic change remains absent. The searchable database of 20,000 files compiled by Courier Newsroom offers an unprecedented view into Epstein’s network, including financial […]
When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Dublin in early December 2025, he was welcomed with ceremonial warmth, joint press conferences, and emphatic declarations of solidarity from Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach) Micheál Martin. The visit concluded with new partnership commitments, financial pledges, and assurances of long-term political backing. Yet behind […]
International law likes to speak about principles, but it prefers silence when those principles are violated by the very power that claims authorship over them. The recent episode involving Venezuela has become yet another illustration of this long-standing reality: in a world governed by the “rule of the strong,” norms […]
The United States’ decision to skip the G20 summit in South Africa is not a matter of protocol, scheduling, or personality. It is a revealing political signal that exposes Washington’s growing discomfort with an international system in which it no longer exercises uncontested agenda-setting power. As the global economic and […]
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