Open Dialogue Research Journal
Donald Trump’s recent intervention in Venezuela and renewed musings about acquiring Greenland are not isolated blips of erratic behaviour. They are emblematic of a deliberate worldview in which power is exercised unilaterally, international rules are optional, and alliances exist only as long as they serve immediate interests. For Europe, these […]
He did it to Iran, which refused to have any nuclear weapons — and so he invaded in order that “Iran cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.” He did it to Venezuela. He threatens it to Greenland and Denmark. He had promised to end all wars, but has instead continued […]
In January 2025, the New York Post published an article with the provocative title “The Doctrine of Donro. Trump’s Vision for the Hemisphere”, which examined the bold and pretentious statements of the newly elected president, who went to the White House for the second time. At that time, he predicted […]
International law likes to speak about principles, but it prefers silence when those principles are violated by the very power that claims authorship over them. The recent episode involving Venezuela has become yet another illustration of this long-standing reality: in a world governed by the “rule of the strong,” norms […]
The Trump administration’s mania about Greenland, a self-governing territory of Denmark, is something to behold. Its untutored thuggery, its brash assertiveness, and the increasingly strident threats to either use force, bully Denmark into a sale of the island, or simply annex the territory, have officials and commentators scrambling for theories […]
The paradox of Donald Trump has always been that a man who lies so relentlessly can, at rare moments, speak with a startling candour. We have been trained to treat every presidential utterance as either a falsehood or a provocation, to be decoded rather than believed. That instinct was forged […]
It usually takes archival digging, the golden gaffe, an ill-considered remark and occasional spells of candour by those in power, to admit that the United States has, in common with other imperial powers, brutal ambitions. An example of the latter was General Smedley Butler who, at his death in 1940, […]
Switzerland has taken an extraordinary legal step following the loss of power of Venezuela’s former leader Nicolás Maduro, announcing the precautionary freezing of any assets he or individuals close to him may hold within Swiss jurisdiction. The move, confirmed by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Bern, underscores […]
For years, Donald Trump’s foreign policy statements were widely dismissed as political theater. His musings about buying Greenland, threatening Mexico over drug cartels, tightening the screws on Cuba, or exerting pressure on Latin American governments were often interpreted as exaggerated negotiating tactics or domestic political signaling rather than serious […]
The overarching trend is that the US is militarily reasserting its historical “sphere of influence” over the Americas, and enforcing the maritime component of “Fortress America” is so important for Trump 2.0 that it’s willing to rubbish the “rules-based order” over it and even risk an accidental war with Russia. […]
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