Open Dialogue Research Journal
razil-presidential-elections- Recently, Brazil voted in an election that matters far beyond its borders. The leftwing incumbent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is reported to be neck and neck with Flávio Bolsonaro, son of the former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro. A first round on Sunday is to be followed by a […]
Two very different protest movements are unfolding at the same time in two neighboring European democracies. In Spain, tens of thousands of people in 50 cities have taken to the streets over a housing market that has priced a generation out of independent adult life. In France, high school […]
For decades, the militarization of space operated on a kind of diplomatic fiction: everyone assumed the major powers were developing weapons capable of operating in orbit, but no government had ever officially confirmed deploying them. That fiction ended last week when US Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink told […]
Oil markets have spent months absorbing bad news out of the Middle East with relative composure, cushioned by the fact that the war between the US, Israel, and Iran hadn’t yet meaningfully disrupted the physical flow of crude. That cushion appears to be wearing thin. Brent crude climbed past $106 […]
China’s economy is pulling in two directions at once, and July’s data makes the split harder to ignore. On one side, household spending is barely growing and the property sector remains locked in a multi-year collapse. On the other, factories are running hotter than ever, with high-tech manufacturing surging at […]
Political power in Germany rarely collapses overnight. It erodes first – in lost votes, in failed personnel reshuffles, in polling numbers that keep sliding without a clear floor – and only later does that erosion translate into an actual change of leadership. That’s the framework German political analysts are now […]
American interest payments on the national debt have now climbed to an annualized $1.2 trillion – enough to surpass the entire US defense budget. That figure isn’t the product of a single bad year or one reckless policy choice. It’s the cumulative result of a debt trajectory that has been […]
On 17 February 2026, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a sweeping measure: from 1 May 2026, China would lift import tariffs on goods from the 53 African Union (AU) member states that maintain diplomatic relations with Beijing. The policy-covering goods worth more than $116 billion, roughly Africa’s 2024 exports to […]
Part I Discussions about singularity often generate sensational headlines, particularly when connected to population growth. Some interpretations suggest that humanity is approaching a dramatic threshold around the late 2020s. The origins of this idea can be traced to mathematical models developed in the twentieth century. Researchers observed that for long […]
Eight bombs fell on the runways and hangars of the Abu al-Duhur air base in northern Syria early Tuesday morning, and within hours the incident had done something more consequential than damage a single airstrip: it pulled three of Washington’s closest Middle East partners – Israel, Turkey, and Syria’s new […]
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