Open Dialogue Research Journal
This incisive article by CRG Research Associate Robert J. Burrowes was first published in July 2025. On about 20 September 2001, just ten days after the destruction of the World Trade Centre buildings on 9/11, recently retired U.S. Army General Wesley Clark was visiting the Pentagon for meetings with Secretary Rumsfeld and […]
The trend was already tracing itself through the corridors of power, but the world’s most powerful defence department has fallen, most heavily, for the use of artificial intelligence at virtually every level of its operations. Even before the Pentagon’s intoxicating pursuit of artificial intelligence was announced, the Defence Advanced Research […]
The new “cordon sanitaire” that Trump 2.0 assembled around Russia, the difficulty in maintaining its Sino-Indo balancing act, and the broken feedback loops that afflict its Foreign Ministry are the main strategic risks that must be urgently addressed in order to most effectively ensure Russia’s future. Putin wisely advised Russians […]
At the end of September, the US leadership officially announced that “Inherent Resolve” operation had been completed and American troops were withdrawing from the country. This ended the 23-year occupation of Iraq, although troops had previously withdrawn in 2011, but returned in 2014 under the pretext of fighting the ISIS […]
There was nothing new in the Reality Television President’s swill filled address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 22. Donald Trump had said much of it before, most of it with wearying derangement and detachment from reality. There were the bullying threats of annihilation and doomsday relish that […]
The Supreme Court’s decision to let the Trump administration resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own, without giving them a chance to argue the harm they might face there, follows a pattern that’s become familiar over the past two years: the justices repeatedly allow a contested immigration policy […]
They have false understandings of motivation and of other aspects of conscious beings, and these false understandings have caused their teaching of their systems on the basis of reward learning or “Reinforcement Learning” (or simply “RL”) that causes their systems’ top goal to be to satisfy their users instead of […]
It could set into motion a fast-moving sequence of events that meaningfully de-escalates New Cold War tensions provided that Trump agrees to participate in this project as expected. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko just announced that “Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin] and I agreed that Gazprom will join us in implementing the project […]
Part I Part II Pat III For Democrats, the central problem extends beyond messaging. Policy proposals addressing healthcare expansion, infrastructure investment, child tax credits, or rural broadband may enjoy substantial support when evaluated individually. The difficulty arises when voters question whether national leaders genuinely understand local priorities or intend to […]
Florida’s «Alligator Alcatraz» has closed, but the controversy surrounding it has entered a more consequential phase. September disclosures about confinement conditions, followed by a separate federal review of detention spending, have shifted attention from the facility’s provocative branding to the decisions that sustained it. Together, the findings raise questions about […]
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