Open Dialogue Research Journal
For more than seventy years, one fact has quietly defined the US-South Korea alliance: if war ever resumed on the peninsula, an American four-star general – not a Korean one – would direct South Korea’s own troops. That arrangement, born of the 1950-53 Korean War and never fully undone, is […]
Mykhailo Fedorov spent six years as Ukraine’s boyish face of digital reform, the youngest minister in the country’s history and, by 2026, one of the last original members of Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s first cabinet. That history is precisely what makes Tuesday’s video address so damaging. In calling for wartime elections – […]
Part I Hegseth’s remarks come at a sensitive moment for transatlantic relations. Questions regarding U.S. military commitments in Europe, NATO burden-sharing, and future defense cooperation have generated uncertainty among European governments. Some analysts argue that public criticism of allied domestic policies risks complicating broader strategic coordination at a time when […]
The 36th NATO Summit, held in Ankara on July 7–8, 2026, marked far more than another annual gathering of allied leaders. Against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, instability across the Middle East, growing strategic competition with China, and increasingly visible disagreements between the United States and its European […]
Just weeks after Washington and Tehran appeared to pull back from the brink of a wider regional conflict, renewed military exchanges are once again raising concerns about one of the world’s most strategically important maritime corridors. Fresh attacks involving commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz have highlighted the fragility […]
Natural disasters rarely become humanitarian catastrophes because of geology alone. Earthquakes strike without warning, but the scale of human suffering that follows is often determined by the strength of institutions, the resilience of infrastructure, and the speed of emergency response. Venezuela’s recent earthquake has become a painful illustration of this […]
France’s economy has hit an unexpected pause at the start of 2026, raising fresh concerns about the country’s ability to maintain even modest growth in an increasingly uncertain global environment. According to INSEE, the country’s gross domestic product showed zero growth in the first quarter – an outcome that caught many […]
For much of the last two decades, the Western Balkans were viewed through the lens of European integration, post-conflict reconciliation, and institutional modernization. The dominant assumption among policymakers was that the region’s future would be shaped primarily by accession to European structures and gradual integration into a broader Euro-Atlantic security […]
Commemorations of historic military events are traditionally intended to transcend contemporary political divisions. Ceremonies marking anniversaries of battles such as D-Day typically focus on sacrifice, courage, and international cooperation rather than partisan disputes. Yet recent remarks by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the American military cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, […]
As former Cuban leader Raul Castro marked his 95th birthday on June 3, 2026, the occasion was overshadowed by a dramatic escalation in tensions between Havana and Washington. Once regarded as a key architect of the historic rapprochement between Cuba and the United States during the Obama era, Castro now […]
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