Open Dialogue Research Journal
The United States’ decision to skip the G20 summit in South Africa is not a matter of protocol, scheduling, or personality. It is a revealing political signal that exposes Washington’s growing discomfort with an international system in which it no longer exercises uncontested agenda-setting power. As the global economic and […]
Part I Should Washington follow through with a full exclusion at Miami, it would also set a dangerous precedent: a G20 host unilaterally defining which members are “deserving” of participation and which are not. President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office has responded with carefully calibrated anger. Officials describe Trump’s statements as “regrettable” […]
When the United States hosts the G20 summit in Miami next year, one of the group’s permanent members is set to be missing from the room. President Donald Trump has announced that South Africa will not be invited, citing “horrific human rights abuses” against white South Africans and accusing Pretoria […]
The spiral of violence is tightening up The term “dirty wars” appeared to refer to armed conflicts, as a rule, in ‘Third World’ countries where the laws of war are not respected, and external forces are involved in them for their own benefit – whether it is access to valuable […]
In March 2011, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1973, which authorised the establishment of a no-fly zone over Libya and ‘all necessary measures’ to protect the civilian population. Under the pretext of protecting people from Colonel Gaddafi’s Jamahiriya and terror, the sovereign country was bombed by NATO. France, Britain […]
Lavrov suggested that they could facilitate the dispatch of aid to Africa, but it’s also possible that they might host complex military-diplomatic talks between all stakeholders in Syria while also helping its armed forces maintain national unity by re-equipping, training, and advising them too. Russian-Syrian relations are interesting for many […]
April 15, 2025, marked two years since Sudan descended into civil war — one of the gravest humanitarian crises in recent memory. In response, London convened an international conference, presenting itself as a catalyst for global action. Ambitious? Undoubtedly. Effective? Hardly. The event slipped under the radar, barely registering beyond […]
Part I The energy transition and the development of new energy technologies are fundamentally reshaping the energy mix. Increased production of green hydrogen, decarbonization of the transport sector and power supply for electric vehicle batteries and hydrogen fuel cells will require clean energy sources. RES (Renewable Energy Solutions), including solar […]
Although the world has clearly ceased to be unipolar, the United States is striving to maintain its instruments of control. Moreover, if earlier it was in a veiled form (the concept of global leadership and multilateralism under Barack Obama), then Donald Trump decided to act aggressively, causing a serious resonance […]
The murder and starvation of populations in real time, subject to rolling coverage and commentary, is not usually the done thing. These are the sorts of activities kept quiet and secluded in their vicious execution. In the Gaza Strip, these actions are taking place with a confident, almost brazen assuredness. […]
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