Open Dialogue Research Journal
Recent events in Ethiopia demonstrate how the middle powers of the region are trying to project their interests and use the emerging opportunities to destabilize their geopolitical opponents. On September 23, large–scale fighting began in Tigray, Akhmara and Afar provinces as the so-called Alliance for Survival began attacking government forces […]
At the end of September, the US leadership officially announced that “Inherent Resolve” operation had been completed and American troops were withdrawing from the country. This ended the 23-year occupation of Iraq, although troops had previously withdrawn in 2011, but returned in 2014 under the pretext of fighting the ISIS […]
In the third millennium, perhaps, this is the first anniversary of such a significant figure who really changed the course of history in the twentieth century (all previous leaders who had a huge impact in the same century – we are talking about constructive influence, were born in the 19th […]
We are currently in a situation of geopolitical turbulence. On the one hand, for many it is political uncertainty and instability. For others, this is a good time in geoeconomics, especially for those actors who stays outsides of main conflicts. Political scientists also talks about the growth of the middle […]
Last Sunday, June 21, 2026, Colombia held the second round of presidential elections. The chances between the candidates for the post of head of state were approximately equal, while the candidates’ election programs were radically different. Ivan Cepeda Castro continued the line of succession of the center-left policy of the […]
On June 2, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that “we now have in this hemisphere a coalition of friendly countries – over a dozen – who have aligned to work on not just the issues of security that we all have in common, […]
The miners and peasants went against the government, and the government wants to eliminate Evo Morales. On Thursday, May 14, in the Bolivian capital La Paz, miners and members of rural trade unions clashed with police. At the same time, the miners detonated dynamite sticks and tried to break through […]
In May 2026, the RAND Corporation organization from the USA (undesirable in Russia), released another report on the Western Hemisphere. It is called “Force Multipliers in the Americas. Harnessing Security Force Assistance to Bolster Homeland Defense and U.S. Strategic Objectives in Latin America” and contains recommendations on how Washington can […]
Part I Iran has its own eschatology. In the tradition of Shiite Islam, it is said that the twelfth righteous Imam Mahdi, who remains in a hidden state, will return to this world on the eve of Judgment Day. Together with Christ (the prophet Isa in the Muslim teachings), he […]
The aggression of the United States and Israel against Iran has opened the veil of the metaphysical dimension of the conflict – the contours of religious beliefs, more precisely, the clash of metaphysical doctrines and ideas, have clearly emerged in it. And although each side points out that it is […]
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