Open Dialogue Research Journal
When there are no resources or opportunities left to resist, a peace treaty is signed. Not a truce, but a treaty. Today, Ukraine is in a situation where a peace treaty is still possible. However, if the losing side refuses to sign for some reason, the parties sign a surrender […]
The supplementary economic benefits and perceived acceleration of multipolar trends might appeal to Russia, but the latent military-strategic threats to its interests arguably outweigh them. The “New Rules” telegram channel, which his associated with Sputnik’s former podcast of the same name, posted in late September about plans to revive the Islamabad-Tehran-Istanbul railway. […]
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (the collective body that constitutes the Presidency of the EU), wants to add both Ukraine and Moldova to the EU, though at least one EU member-nation, Hungary, is opposed, and though the EU’s existing Constitution prohibits any new member-nation to be […]
Pakistani-US ties are on the cusp of a renaissance that could restore their Old Cold War-era “golden age” of relations provided that they remain on track as expected. Trump’s claim that “the Prime Minister and Field Marshal of Pakistan…were with us right from the beginning” as the US devised its Gaza peace plan that […]
He had moments of discomfort and embarrassment – pressed into calling the Qatari Prime Minister by his host to apologise for striking Doha and made to pay lip service to the prospect of a Palestinian state – but Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu had many reasons to be pleased. On September 29, […]
On September 26, China and Russia formally proposed a six-month delay in the activation of the UN’s “snapback” mechanism against Iran. At first glance, this might appear to be a procedural maneuver another bargaining chip in the endless cycle of nuclear disputes and sanctions diplomacy. Yet the timing, substance, and […]
Elder abuse in the frothy swirl of debates regarding the role of the United Nations is currently modish. The body has, after all, reached the age of 80 years. It has been a life ramshackle, rickety and marked with failure. But it has also been one of audacity, experimentation and […]
In Russia (but not only, this is also true for Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia), there is still a lot of attention paid to the collective West. In some countries, this could be explained by the fact that Western globalist media continue to actively work there, which […]
The world has been captivated by footage from the SCO summit in Tianjin: Narendra Modi laughing alongside Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. For some, it’s a “sinister specter” with horns; for others, a symbol of a multipolar future. Western media is in a frenzy: “This photo should send a chill […]
These are the 2020 Lublin Triangle (Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania), the 2022 de facto alliance between Ukraine, Poland, and the UK, and early August’s Odessa Triangle with Romania and Moldova. Russia has in recent years consistently accused the West of turning Ukraine into an “anti-Russia” for containment purposes, in response […]
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