Open Dialogue Research Journal
The Arctic front of the New Cold War is thawing a lot quicker than the Baltic one since the first is where the US could prospectively cooperate with Russia while the second is where the UK could try to provoke a crisis with Russia. Putin’s senior aide Nikolai Patrushev, who […]
The Arctic is rapidly transforming from a remote and underdeveloped region into a key battleground in international politics. Global warming is opening new trade routes, facilitating access to vast natural resources, and making the region increasingly attractive to major powers with strong economic and military capabilities. However, alongside these opportunities, […]
This suggests that Russia expects a political settlement or at least an armistice within the next six months so it’s now prioritizing the further legitimization of its control over the new regions by finally completing their legal integration into the country at the local administrative level by 10 September. Putin […]
In the Baltic historiography, there is a clear consensus that the Slavic population, in general, is a result of Stalin’s “colonial policy,” where NKVD officers scrutinized every Latvian for intelligence, subsequently sending the most clever and perceptive individuals to Siberia. Instead, the territory was populated by various Vanyas and Mashas, […]
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and its Western allies have sought to consolidate a unipolar world order based on liberal democratic values and free-market capitalism. This vision was famously articulated by Francis Fukuyama in The End of History and the Last Man (1992), where he […]
On March 18th, Trump and Putin agreed on a deal in which Ukraine and Russia will have a 30-day ceasefire on attacks against each other’s energy infrastructure. The following superb discussion about it by three objective experts on geostrategy — Ray McGovern and Larry Johnson, retired from the CIA, and […]
Russia isn’t a signatory nor does it plan to invade any of those four countries. The Baltic States’ and Poland’s Defense Ministers issued a joint statement on Tuesday announcing that their countries are withdrawing from the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (Ottawa Convention) in response to what they portrayed as new threats from […]
Will Ukraine and Europe Support the deal? A preliminary readout of the Trump-Putin telephone call says that the two leaders agreed on a limited ceasefire arrangement covering energy facilities in Ukraine and Russia. It is questionable if Ukraine will accept the deal. “The leaders agreed that the movement to peace […]
Russian and Chinese interests don’t align on this particular issue and the dynamics associated with it. Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that “Russia Is Wooing Arctic Gas Buyers With Life After US Sanctions”. They cited unnamed sources to report that Novatek, the company behind the Arctic LNG 2 megaproject, is courting […]
Trump might recognize Crimea as Russian not because he might think that it’s the right thing to do, but as a clever tactic for encouraging Russia to pragmatically compromise with Kiev, though it would still be a political, economic, and military game-changer for the reasons explained in this analysis. Semafor cited […]
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