Open Dialogue Research Journal
A year ago, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, stood at the United Nations podium as a curiosity, a former jihadist commander whose lightning offensive had toppled a strong dynasty and whose diplomatic rehabilitation was still a tentative experiment. This very September, he returned to New York as a head of state whose country […]
European gas prices have climbed to their highest level in four years. On Monday, wholesale gas reached €97 per megawatt-hour as temperatures fell across the continent and traders priced in stronger demand for heating. The UK’s month-ahead contract rose 4% to 240p per therm, its highest since December 2022. The […]
Oil prices fell on Monday after surging last week to near six-month highs, as investors seized on signs that hostilities between the United States and Iran might ease. The move was small and the mood cautious. US West Texas Intermediate futures were down $1.76, or 1.7%, at $101.51 a barrel […]
The most consequential diplomatic meeting in the Middle East this year is unfolding not in a grand palace, but inside the fortified corridors of power in Tehran, and it comes with an expiration date measured in days, not months. On October 26, 2026, three of the region’s most powerful Sunni-majority […]
In a telephone interview on Fox News on the morning of November 3, President Donald Trump revealed that a deal had been struck with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cease the annual provision of US$3.8 billion in military assistance after 2026. “We already agreed that by the end of […]
Oil flows from the Middle East have almost returned to the levels seen before the United States attacked Iran, an event that triggered one of the largest supply disruptions in history. On a simple reading, prices should have fallen back. They have not. Global crude remains above $100 a barrel, […]
The race to choose the next United Nations secretary general has acquired an uncomfortable test case. The candidacy of Lana Nusseibeh, a minister of state of the United Arab Emirates and a former UAE ambassador to the UN, is reported to be gaining momentum and endorsements. It has also provoked […]
Israelis voted last Tuesday in their first national election since Hamas’s attack of 7 October 2023. Polling stations opened at 7 a.m. and closed at 10 p.m. local time. For Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been in office for 19 years and is Israel’s longest-serving leader, it was a […]
Tenured insanity is set to return after the midterm elections in the United States. In October, US President Donald Trump seemed to ice the ongoing conflict against Iran with the dismissive promise that it would be dealt with after November 3. This could involve the renewal of force so far […]
Israel’s defense minister stood before a map of southern Lebanon this week and described a fait accompli. More than 60 villages erased. Twenty-three thousand homes reduced to rubble. A 700-square-kilometer “security zone” carved into Lebanese territory, emptied of 200,000 Shiite residents, declared permanent until Hezbollah disarms. “We will not withdraw,” […]
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