Open Dialogue Research Journal
For more than two and a half years, silence has reigned along Finland’s roughly 1,340-kilometer eastern border — once one of Europe’s busiest overland trade corridors. Cafes that once welcomed Russian day-trippers now stand shuttered. Hotel occupancy reports in South Karelia show levels not seen since the Soviet Union collapsed. […]
The global consequences of war are rarely confined to battlefields. In 2026, the conflict involving Iran, the United States, and Israel has triggered a humanitarian emergency far beyond the Middle East. One of the most critical flashpoints is the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow but strategically vital shipping route through […]
They are a disagreeable bunch, with disagreeable ideas to match. The querulous brats behind the drive for technological servility and plugged in stupidity were always going to scrap over which dystopian vision they most prefer. Elon Musk thought he was onto something hounding OpenAI and its current CEO Sam Altman […]
Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies on Monday named a former top presidential aide, widely identified as Andriy Yermak, as a suspect in a high-profile corruption investigation, a development that could intensify political tensions in Kyiv at a sensitive moment in the country’s war with Russia. The agencies said the individual under suspicion […]
Springtime Beijing greeted Donald Trump with the full ceremonial treatment. Temple of Heaven, Confucian references, red flags fluttering, green tea, and the carefully tended roses in the historic gardens of Zhongnanhai. Trump, according to reports, was genuinely impressed by the flowers and asked Xi Jinping for seeds. Xi smiled and […]
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 […]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov proposed during a Q&A session after the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ meeting in India that his host nation become the long-term mediator between Iran and the Gulf Kingdoms. The context concerned him being asked about the de facto state of armed conflict between two of the group’s members, Iran and the UAE, […]
Cartel members are not always a congenial bunch. Relations can get frosty and brittle over time. With the United Arab Emirates, membership of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has not been without its troubles, not helped by the increasingly snarky relationship it shares with the group’s de […]
The decision by Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies to name a former presidential chief of staff as a suspect in a major laundering case has prompted interpretive debate beyond Kyiv. One influential reading – advanced by some observers and hinted at in political commentary – sees the move as more than a […]
Syria’s war has changed shape, but it has not disappeared. The country is no longer living through the same battlefield map that defined the Assad years, yet the forces that once tore it apart are still active beneath the surface: armed fragmentation, sectarian fear, economic despair, foreign rivalry, and the […]
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