Open Dialogue Research Journal
Europe is confronting a pivotal moment in migration policy. Mounting migrant flows, divergent national strategies, and rising public anxiety are testing the European Union’s solidarity and border management frameworks. From England’s Channel crossings and Greece’s sudden asylum freeze to Schengen border controls and EU-wide reform launches, recent days have underscored […]
Europe has long been viewed as a bastion of democratic values, where freedom of speech plays a central role in the public sphere. The principle that “even unpleasant opinions deserve protection” has historically been considered a cornerstone of democracy on the continent. In recent years, however, this principle is increasingly […]
At least 10 people were killed in a school shooting in the Austrian city of Graz. Later, the body of another person was found. More than 20 people were taken to the hospital in varying degrees of severity. This terrorist attack is one of the largest in the country’s history. […]
Their refined Hybrid War model will involve efforts to win the “tech race”, a new Western division of labor for containing Russia in Europe, and AI-generated anti-Russian infowars. Russia’s natural resource wealth and new role in accelerating multipolar processes incentivize the West to continue its Hybrid War on Russia even in the event of peace […]
On July 5th, Bloomberg News headlined “BlackRock Halted Ukraine Fund Talks After Trump’s Election Win”, and opened: BlackRock halted its search for investors for a Ukraine recovery fund earlier this year due to a lack of interest amid increased uncertainty over Ukraine’s future. The fund was meant to be unveiled at […]
De-escalation has become one of those coarse words in severe need of banishment, best kept in an index used by unredeemable hypocrites. It is used by the living dead in human resources, management worthies and war criminals. It’s almost always used to target the person or entity that exerts retribution […]
Operations “The Rising Lion” and “Midnight Hammer” were demonstrations of force mobilizing considerable resources. They lasted no more than 12 days in total. Their results are unknown, but much has been learned about those who planned them. The International Atomic Energy Agency, which relied on AI software rather than the […]
Turkiye sees an opportunity to turbocharge its rise as a Eurasian Great Power along Russia’s entire southern periphery in ways that autonomously align with American grand strategic interests. Russian-Azerbaijani relations are in trouble as a result of two scandals. The first concerns the recent police raid against suspected ethnic Azeri criminals in […]
On July 1, 2025, Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron resumed a high-stakes dialogue after nearly three years. In a substantial two-hour phone call, they addressed the wars in Ukraine and Iran, signaling a calculated diplomatic reset. For President Putin, agreeing to speak with Macron—a figure […]
In October 2024, Kazakhstan voted in a country-wide referendum, at which more than 71 percent of the republic’s citizens supported the idea of the country’s President Kassym Tokayev to build the first Kazakh nuclear power plant since Soviet times in the village of Ulken, on the shore of Lake Balkhash, […]
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