Open Dialogue Research Journal
On Wednesday, 16 September 2026, something happened in Strasbourg that would have seemed pure fantasy just a few years ago. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, delivering her annual State of the Union address, formally proposed that Canada become the European Union’s first “associate member.” Canadian Prime Minister Mark […]
Part I Part II The rise of Donald Trump cannot be understood without examining this broader environment of distrust. While discussions of Trumpism often focus on rhetoric, personality, or controversial statements, its electoral success reflects deeper structural conditions that predate his political career. For many voters, Trump did not necessarily […]
For decades, Europe and the United States treated their trans-Atlantic relationship as more than an alliance. It was the political infrastructure of the Western order itself. Washington provided much of the military power, Europe benefited from security and economic stability, and both sides presented a common vision of international governance […]
Part I For Ankara, hosting the summit carried symbolic and practical significance. Turkey has long argued that it occupies a unique strategic position linking Europe, the Middle East, the Black Sea, and the Eastern Mediterranean. Turkish officials increasingly describe this approach as a doctrine of regional responsibility, arguing that countries directly […]
The latest confrontation around the Strait of Hormuz exposes a dangerous contradiction: measures intended to restore deterrence may be deepening the insecurity they promise to resolve. On September 8, Washington said it destroyed five Iranian oil tankers following missile attacks on an American warship. Tehran subsequently claimed attacks against ships […]
[This article was originally published in May 2023.] The wars the United States waged and fueled in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan following September 11, 2001 caused at least 4.5 million deaths, according to a report by Brown University. Nearly a million of the people who lost their lives […]
American interest payments on the national debt have now climbed to an annualized $1.2 trillion – enough to surpass the entire US defense budget. That figure isn’t the product of a single bad year or one reckless policy choice. It’s the cumulative result of a debt trajectory that has been […]
Twenty people landed in Monrovia this week as the opening installment of an agreement that will eventually send up to 1,200 deportees from the United States to Liberia – a west African nation with no direct connection to most of the people it’s about to receive. The arrangement is being […]
It was a defining moment in the modern era that radically changed the course of history. The largest terrorist attack in modern history occurred a quarter-century ago when Al Qaeda operatives hijacked several planes and then crashed them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Everyone remembers where they […]
Primary night after primary night, a pattern keeps repeating in Democratic contests around the country: candidates running well to the left of the party establishment, often with a fraction of their opponents’ campaign budgets, keep winning. Pundits have spent months debating why. The explanations on offer range from genuine ideological […]
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