Open Dialogue Research Journal
Israel votes on Tuesday in its first national election since Hamas’s surprise attack of 7 October 2023, an event that shook the country, triggered war in Gaza and with Hamas’s allies in Lebanon and Iran, and plunged the region into turmoil. Opinion polls have predicted for months that Prime Minister […]
With Election Day two weeks away, nearly every signal from the Senate races favours the Democrats. Polls, election models and the general political climate point their way, and Republicans are scrambling to shore up even states they normally take for granted. Momentum has reached deep-red territory such as Kansas and […]
A protest movement that began in late September at a single Paris suburb high school over teacher shortages has, within roughly two weeks, grown into a nationwide confrontation involving thousands of arrests, serious injuries to teenagers, and a government struggling to contain a crisis it clearly didn’t see coming. The […]
Andy Burnham built his premiership’s early identity around a single, emotionally resonant promise: not to manage rough sleeping, not to reduce it, but to end it. This week he put money behind that pledge – £442 million for a national drive modeled on the pandemic-era effort to get people off […]
When Aliko Dangote’s oil refinery began listing shares on the Nigerian stock exchange, it wasn’t just Africa’s largest-ever public offering – it was the culmination of a bet that reshaped an entire country’s relationship with its own oil. If the flotation of Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals goes as planned, […]
Trade statistics rarely tell a dramatic story on their own, but Nigeria’s latest import figures come close. In the first quarter of 2026, China supplied N5.10 trillion worth of goods to Nigeria compared with N2.81 trillion from the United States – already a substantial gap. By the second quarter, that […]
Nigel Farage’s pitch to “hijack” Tom Homan and bring him to Britain “to secure our borders” was delivered as a joke at a US event. But the specific person Farage chose to praise, and the political moment in which he chose to praise him, make the remark worth taking seriously […]
Christine Lagarde doesn’t typically frame central bank speeches around geopolitical vulnerability, but her address in Vienna this week did exactly that. The European Central Bank president argued that Europe’s growing reliance on American and Chinese artificial intelligence isn’t just a competitiveness gap – it’s a strategic exposure that could hand […]
Part I For Ankara, hosting the summit carried symbolic and practical significance. Turkey has long argued that it occupies a unique strategic position linking Europe, the Middle East, the Black Sea, and the Eastern Mediterranean. Turkish officials increasingly describe this approach as a doctrine of regional responsibility, arguing that countries directly […]
Three hours before a new round of 50% tariffs was due to hit Canadian goods at midnight, Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he was pausing them for three days because the two countries had reached a deal. An hour after that, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney offered a […]
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