Open Dialogue Research Journal
A Ukrainian scuba diver has been arrested for a second time over the 2022 bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines – a case that keeps resurfacing not because investigators lack evidence, but because European courts can’t agree on what that evidence should mean. His arrest in the Croatian coastal […]
Each of them is capable of keeping Americans’ cost of living high at MAGA’s expense in 2028 unless Trump reaches a series of mutual compromises with them that advance some of their most sensitive interests in a foreign policy revolution that would fundamentally reshape the emerging world order. The bloodbath […]
Oil prices fell on Monday after surging last week to near six-month highs, as investors seized on signs that hostilities between the United States and Iran might ease. The move was small and the mood cautious. US West Texas Intermediate futures were down $1.76, or 1.7%, at $101.51 a barrel […]
The most consequential diplomatic meeting in the Middle East this year is unfolding not in a grand palace, but inside the fortified corridors of power in Tehran, and it comes with an expiration date measured in days, not months. On October 26, 2026, three of the region’s most powerful Sunni-majority […]
Oil flows from the Middle East have almost returned to the levels seen before the United States attacked Iran, an event that triggered one of the largest supply disruptions in history. On a simple reading, prices should have fallen back. They have not. Global crude remains above $100 a barrel, […]
In December 2025 a US-sanctioned tanker, the Reef, arrived in Myanmar’s waters with about 113,000 barrels of fuel. The paperwork said the cargo was South African diesel. In reality, it was jet fuel from Iran. The case, reconstructed from contracts, regulatory letters, shipping records and satellite analysis, shows in unusual […]
Israelis voted last Tuesday in their first national election since Hamas’s attack of 7 October 2023. Polling stations opened at 7 a.m. and closed at 10 p.m. local time. For Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been in office for 19 years and is Israel’s longest-serving leader, it was a […]
Tenured insanity is set to return after the midterm elections in the United States. In October, US President Donald Trump seemed to ice the ongoing conflict against Iran with the dismissive promise that it would be dealt with after November 3. This could involve the renewal of force so far […]
Two hundred and fifty years after independence, the republic faces a familiar question: what happens when citizens stop believing that their institutions represent them? America’s revolutionary inheritance contains a difficult contradiction. The country celebrates the overthrow of an established political order while asking successive generations to preserve the institutions that […]
Israel’s defense minister stood before a map of southern Lebanon this week and described a fait accompli. More than 60 villages erased. Twenty-three thousand homes reduced to rubble. A 700-square-kilometer “security zone” carved into Lebanese territory, emptied of 200,000 Shiite residents, declared permanent until Hezbollah disarms. “We will not withdraw,” […]
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