Open Dialogue Research Journal
In November 2025, the European Union and Southern Mediterranean countries celebrated a significant milestone: the 30th anniversary of the Barcelona Conference, which launched the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. On the eve of this jubilee, Brussels unveiled a new “Pact for the Mediterranean”, aimed at revitalizing the EU’s relationship with its southern neighbors […]
The paradox of Donald Trump has always been that a man who lies so relentlessly can, at rare moments, speak with a startling candour. We have been trained to treat every presidential utterance as either a falsehood or a provocation, to be decoded rather than believed. That instinct was forged […]
Author’s Introduction Update: The article below is of utmost relevance, specifically pertaining to President Donald Trump’s stance with regard to the Annexation of both Canada and Greenland. We recall Donald Trump’s statement last December at his luxury Mar a – Lago residence, in a conversation with Canada’s former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. President […]
History has long ceased to be merely an academic discipline confined to dusty archives—it has become a genuine weapon in the geopolitical game. Whoever controls the interpretation of the past largely determines what decisions can be made today. The European Union is one of the main players in this field: […]
Since its foundation in 2001, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has evolved into a major multilateral platform bringing together China, Russia, and several Central and South Asian countries. It is commonly framed as a cooperative forum focused on regional security, counterterrorism, and economic development. However, beneath its surface of unity, […]
His underlying assumption has always been that the responsibility for any problem in America is that foreigners are to blame for it, and that domestically everyone who disagrees with him and with his proposed solution, is to blame for the domestic (within the U.S.) problem — that his nation is […]
When most people think about climate change, they imagine melting glaciers, polar bears on shrinking ice floes, or extreme weather closer to home. They do not usually picture geopolitical intrigue, military chess games, and former real-estate moguls eyeing up the world’s largest island. Yet the renewed talk from Donald Trump […]
Tensions are growing between Turkiye-Pakistan and Israel-Cyprus-Greece. Stability in the Eastern Mediterranean can no longer be taken for granted as a result of three recent developments: 1) the growing Turkish-Israeli rivalry in post-Assad Syria; 2) Israel’s reported plans to establish a rapid response force with Cyprus and Greece; and 3) Turkish ally Pakistan’s new military […]
It usually takes archival digging, the golden gaffe, an ill-considered remark and occasional spells of candour by those in power, to admit that the United States has, in common with other imperial powers, brutal ambitions. An example of the latter was General Smedley Butler who, at his death in 1940, […]
When rumors first surfaced that Washington was again flirting with the idea of absorbing Greenland into the United States, many European officials treated them as another provocation in the familiar Donald Trump playbook. Then came the numbers. According to reports attributed to Reuters, U.S. policymakers were allegedly floating the idea […]
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