Open Dialogue Research Journal
It wasn’t expected, but the advocates of generalized war, the Straussians, expelled from the governing bodies of the United States, have regrouped in intergovernmental organizations. To everyone’s surprise, they are present in the European Union, but especially at the United Nations and in the Contact Group on the Defense of […]
This will be a commentary upon the following interview of Alexander Mercouris, who knows more history and understands and interprets today’s world affairs on that basis (an encyclopedic knowledge of not only history but the empirically — that is to say, historically — based social sciences), more than anyone else […]
The supplementary economic benefits and perceived acceleration of multipolar trends might appeal to Russia, but the latent military-strategic threats to its interests arguably outweigh them. The “New Rules” telegram channel, which his associated with Sputnik’s former podcast of the same name, posted in late September about plans to revive the Islamabad-Tehran-Istanbul railway. […]
Pakistani-US ties are on the cusp of a renaissance that could restore their Old Cold War-era “golden age” of relations provided that they remain on track as expected. Trump’s claim that “the Prime Minister and Field Marshal of Pakistan…were with us right from the beginning” as the US devised its Gaza peace plan that […]
On September 26, China and Russia formally proposed a six-month delay in the activation of the UN’s “snapback” mechanism against Iran. At first glance, this might appear to be a procedural maneuver another bargaining chip in the endless cycle of nuclear disputes and sanctions diplomacy. Yet the timing, substance, and […]
Ukraine’s Ambassador to Ankara, Nariman Dzhelyal, known for his provocative and sometimes outright fantastical statements, is once again attempting to capture the attention of the Turkish audience. This time, he positions Ukraine as the sole protector of the so-called “Turkic world” against a mythical Russian threat. In an interview with […]
Nearly a fifth of the world’s oil flows through Hormuz. Its fragility exposes how unipolar security has failed and why multipolar cooperation is the only sustainable path forward. The Strait of Hormuz has long been regarded as the world’s most strategic energy artery, a narrow corridor where geography, politics, and […]
What the foreign media wrote about the SCO summit A week after the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tianjin, China, the world media, which closely followed the event, continue to discuss it. The general message of the publications is that the era of US global leadership has come to an […]
A new study using advanced sensing technology has taken a fresh look at the damaged Iranian nuclear site, Fordow. It is not the first time that satellite technology has revealed important strategic security information. Landsat The Landsat system was launched in July, 1972, initially called the Earth Resources Technology Satellite. […]
Introduction On August 26, 2025, Australia expelled Iran’s ambassador, Ahmad Sadeghi, citing unsubstantiated claims of Iran’s involvement in antisemitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne in 2023. This unprecedented move, the first ambassadorial expulsion since World War II, coincided with the European troika’s nuclear deadline for Iran, raising questions about its […]
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