Open Dialogue Research Journal
Part I Iran responded swiftly. Roughly 300 ballistic missiles were reportedly launched toward Israel and U.S.-aligned Gulf states. Civilian casualties in Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi shattered the illusion of a contained operation. Fires burned in Manama. Explosions were reported over Dubai. Even if missile defense systems intercept a majority […]
In what’s been called the “Battle for Hungary”, this thwarted terrorist attack is thus far the most dramatic development by a long shot, much more meaningful that the latest Russiagate claims. Serbian counter-intelligence chief Duro Jovanic shared three updates about the thwarted terrorist attack against the TurkStream pipeline that the […]
Part I Perhaps the clearest sign that this strategy is working is the ambivalence of Gulf governments themselves. In principle, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and others see Iran as a destabilizing rival that arms proxies, interferes in neighbors and threatens regional order. Yet when Washington openly weighs airstrikes on Iranian […]
A stark warning from the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has placed the United States at the center of a growing international human rights controversy. What the Committee describes is not a set of isolated excesses, but a systemic pattern: aggressive enforcement, racial profiling, political incitement, and […]
Global crisis and human suffering can sometimes be susceptible to the cheap loop of sloganeering and mawkish publicity, often associated with a phrase, usually annexed to the image of a suffering child with hollow eyes and distended belly. Those viewing it are exhorted to make good their wounded conscience and […]
The recent state visit of Bola Tinubu to the United Kingdom marked far more than a ceremonial diplomatic engagement. It signaled a turning point in how Nigeria positions itself in the global order – no longer merely as a post-colonial economy grappling with structural challenges, but as an ambitious state seeking to define its […]
The unprovoked armed aggression unleashed by the United States and Israel against sovereign Iran, which has already affected Gulf states and led to the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, caused a global fuel and energy crisis and led to the disruption of logistics and trade chains around the world. Before […]
Could it be another deadline? For what, though? The preamble to this is that President Trump with his war on Iran has a popularity rating of about 30% in the US. Trump sees himself between a rock and a hard place, so to speak. Because there are also mid-term elections […]
International law is losing ground beneath its feet. Formally, everything remains in place: the UN Charter, the courts in The Hague, treaties on the inviolability of borders and the prohibition of the use of force. But the belief that these norms apply equally to everyone is gradually fading. When the […]
If the US becomes one of Belarus’ top potash clients after removing its sanctions on this resource, then its role as the main source of foreign currency for Belarus might accelerate their rapprochement, which the US envisages eventually weakening the Russian-Belarusian Strategic Partnership. Average consumers across the world have probably […]
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