Open Dialogue Research Journal
A visit by a US secretary of state to Reykjavik is rare. When it comes from an administration that spent much of this year threatening to seize Greenland, and in a month marking the 40th anniversary of the Cold War’s most famous summit, it deserves attention. On Tuesday Secretary of […]
Part I Slovakia’s increasingly unconventional foreign policy has attracted disproportionate attention within Europe. Prime Minister Robert Fico’s willingness to maintain dialogue with Moscow while remaining inside both the European Union and NATO has often been interpreted as evidence of ideological divergence from Brussels. Such explanations, however, overlook a more fundamental […]
Last week’s US inflation report offered some encouraging news. Core price momentum appeared to be easing as of August, and households under cost-of-living strain could be forgiven for hoping the worst had passed. Commodity analysts are urging caution. The record run-up in diesel prices in the United States and Europe […]
Two very different protest movements are unfolding at the same time in two neighboring European democracies. In Spain, tens of thousands of people in 50 cities have taken to the streets over a housing market that has priced a generation out of independent adult life. In France, high school […]
The containment noose around Russia’s western and southern flanks might eventually tighten. Zelensky launched the Carpathian Eight (C8, also the Carpathian Integration Initiative) during a summit in late September. This platform was supposed to include Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Austria, Serbia, Romania, and Hungary, but the latter’s leader later denied that […]
Regardless of however the “friendly competition” evolves between Germany and Poland over leading NATO 3.0 , one thing is certain, and it’s that US-led creative energy diplomacy will likely shape the post-war European security architecture. Reuters cited five unnamed sources to report that US Special Envoy for Russia Jared Kushner […]
Last week’s US inflation report offered some encouraging news. Core price momentum appeared to be easing as of August, and households under cost-of-living strain could be forgiven for hoping the worst had passed. Commodity analysts are urging caution. The record run-up in diesel prices in the United States and Europe […]
In his second term, US President Donald Trump has gone the way of past executive tribunes of the American imperium in seeking land and resources like a kleptomaniacal pincher. This has been bracing, not least for a foreign policy establishment inured to the hypocrisies of virtue concealed in the international […]
The new “cordon sanitaire” that Trump 2.0 assembled around Russia, the difficulty in maintaining its Sino-Indo balancing act, and the broken feedback loops that afflict its Foreign Ministry are the main strategic risks that must be urgently addressed in order to most effectively ensure Russia’s future. Putin wisely advised Russians […]
Hashim Thaçi went from commanding an armed independence movement to serving as Kosovo’s president, and that same trajectory has recently concluded with a 25-year prison sentence for war crimes committed during the very conflict that made his political career possible. The verdict from the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague […]
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