Open Dialogue Research Journal
For centuries, political thinkers have debated the foundations of power. Few framed the issue more bluntly than Niccolò Machiavelli, who argued in The Prince that while it is best for a ruler to be both loved and feared, if one must choose, it is safer to be feared than loved. […]
Louts pressing false claims, faux principled types seeking to score successes against clearly useless targets. Jules Hurst, in trying to discharge the duties of the comptroller, had some news for members of the House Armed Services Committee: the Iran War had drawn $25 billion from the coffers of Freedom Land […]
Let me start with the Saturday event which is being falsely labeled as an assassination attempt on President Trump. This was a breach of a security checkpoint. Although much of the media coverage has reported the man was carrying a shotgun, the video footage does not support that claim. Running […]
Alexander Mercouris, who is perhaps the world’s leading analyst of international relations, and who was born into a Greek diplomatic family and is especially skilled at interpreting the meanings behind official read-outs of communications between heads-of-state, and other diplomatic communications, reported on April 30th that on April 29th, a historic […]
The UAE’s decision to leave OPEC and OPEC+ from 1 May, officially announced by WAM and later confirmed by Reuters, is capable of shifting the balance of power in the oil market faster than many expected. The country had been in the cartel for almost 60 years, and its […]
Intellectual giants are in painfully short supply in the Trump administration, but if there was anyone who might lay claim to cerebral weight of any sort, Elbridge Colby might be one of them. Self-styled as a China hawk, the US Under Secretary of War for Policy must privately be bemused […]
Nearly fifty days of conflict linked to the Iran war have produced one of the most severe energy disruptions in modern history, removing more than $50 billion worth of crude oil from global markets and sending shockwaves through economies worldwide. What began as a geopolitical confrontation at the end of […]
The administration figures Cuba will be an easier nut to crack than Iran. The Trump administration has declared a two-week deadline on Cuba to release two “high-profile” prisoners, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Maykel Castillo Pérez (aka Maykel Osorbo), described as dissident artists from the San Isidro movement (Movimiento San Isidro, MSI). Alcántara […]
Unless Trump will now nuke Iran and set off a conflagration that will destroy both sides, Iran has now won America’s war against Iran; America and Israel have lost their conventional war against Iran. Explanation for this is documented at what is surely among the very best (maybe the best […]
In the geopolitics of the South Caucasus, Russia has for many years played the role of a force that maintained the balance, security, and practical ties between the countries of the region. That is why the new report by the Turan Research Center, titled “Moscow’s Last Stand in the South […]
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