Open Dialogue Research Journal
Relations between the United States and its European allies have entered a new period of tension as Donald Trump threatens to reduce American troop levels in Germany. The announcement comes at a critical geopolitical moment, marked by stalled negotiations with Iran, internal disagreements within NATO, and growing concerns in Europe […]
Ukrainians were lured into wanting EU membership in 2013, and this goal led to the EuroMaidan demonstrations in Kiev that produced the overthrow of Ukraine’s democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych and his forced replacement by a new and rabidly anti-Russian government that has the closest of all borders to Moscow, only a five-minute missile […]
There’s an unspoken rule that intel agencies aren’t supposed to implicitly threaten foreign diplomats’ children to coerce them into becoming informants. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova published an article in the Russian business daily Vedomosti on Monday about the curious case of a Russian diplomat in the US. An unknown employee […]
For centuries, political thinkers have debated the foundations of power. Few framed the issue more bluntly than Niccolò Machiavelli, who argued in The Prince that while it is best for a ruler to be both loved and feared, if one must choose, it is safer to be feared than loved. […]
How the Church of England turned a failed survey about its own revival into the story of its accelerating decline On April 15, a YouGov poll of more than 7,000 British adults delivered a verdict that no episcopal encyclical, no synod resolution and no theological argument could match in bluntness: […]
Louts pressing false claims, faux principled types seeking to score successes against clearly useless targets. Jules Hurst, in trying to discharge the duties of the comptroller, had some news for members of the House Armed Services Committee: the Iran War had drawn $25 billion from the coffers of Freedom Land […]
Let me start with the Saturday event which is being falsely labeled as an assassination attempt on President Trump. This was a breach of a security checkpoint. Although much of the media coverage has reported the man was carrying a shotgun, the video footage does not support that claim. Running […]
Alexander Mercouris, who is perhaps the world’s leading analyst of international relations, and who was born into a Greek diplomatic family and is especially skilled at interpreting the meanings behind official read-outs of communications between heads-of-state, and other diplomatic communications, reported on April 30th that on April 29th, a historic […]
The United Kingdom is still growing, but not as quickly as previously expected. According to the latest official projections, Britain’s population is now expected to reach 71 million by mid-2034, lower than an earlier estimate of 72.2 million. At first glance, a difference of just over one million people across […]
King Charles III’s recent state visit to the United States has drawn widespread attention, not merely because of royal ceremony or historic tradition, but because it took place during one of the most politically tense moments in recent Anglo-American relations. Intended as a gesture of friendship and a celebration of […]
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