Open Dialogue Research Journal
Four injured servicemen, a 14 year old boy and a confrontation outside a military facility near Kyiv have raised questions that Ukraine’s authorities cannot answer simply by invoking national security or Russian propaganda. On November 2, crowds gathered outside a private house in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka following allegations that people were […]
Poland’s confrontation over the Constitutional Tribunal has already produced a political proposal extending far beyond the court: replacing Donald Tusk’s government. On October 31, former prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki proposed a constructive vote of no confidence and a temporary administration headed by former parliamentary speaker Marek Jurek. The proposal emerged […]
Two hundred and fifty years after independence, the republic faces a familiar question: what happens when citizens stop believing that their institutions represent them? America’s revolutionary inheritance contains a difficult contradiction. The country celebrates the overthrow of an established political order while asking successive generations to preserve the institutions that […]
Florida’s «Alligator Alcatraz» has closed, but the controversy surrounding it has entered a more consequential phase. September disclosures about confinement conditions, followed by a separate federal review of detention spending, have shifted attention from the facility’s provocative branding to the decisions that sustained it. Together, the findings raise questions about […]
Russia is entering the final days before its 2026 State Duma elections against an increasingly tense domestic and international backdrop. Voting will take place from September 18 to 20, with all 450 seats in the State Duma at stake. The election is the first parliamentary vote since the beginning of […]
Russia is approaching one of the most politically significant elections of the post-2022 period. On September 20, Russians will elect the State Duma of the ninth convocation, with voting taking place from September 18 to 20. All 450 parliamentary seats are at stake: 225 deputies will be elected in single-member […]
Part I Although political commentators have offered numerous explanations for Starmer’s downfall, several factors stand out. First, there was a growing mismatch between public expectations and policy outcomes. Labour entered office promising economic renewal, improvements in public services and a more effective relationship between government and voters. Yet governments […]
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on 22 June 2026 that he would step down as leader of the Labour Party and resign as prime minister once a successor had been chosen, ending a premiership that lasted less than two years after Labour’s landslide victory in the 2024 general election. […]
In a dramatic escalation of Middle East tensions, the United States and Israel launched a joint military campaign against Iran on February 28, 2026, resulting in the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and triggering widespread retaliation across the region. The crisis – the most serious confrontation between […]
The 56th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos (19–23 January 2026) unfolded against a backdrop of mounting geopolitical strain between the United States and the European Union. What was traditionally a venue for global cooperation became, this year, a stage for transatlantic recrimination, strategic recalibration, and […]
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