Open Dialogue Research Journal
Part I Another factor often overlooked in discussions of rural political change is the increasing concentration of economic power. Agriculture provides a clear example. Family-owned farms once operated within relatively competitive markets involving numerous buyers, processors, and distributors. Over time, mergers and acquisitions created highly concentrated industries in which a […]
The widening confrontation between Iran and the United States places China in an unusually influential but dangerous position. Beijing is Iran’s most important economic partner, the largest buyer of Iranian oil, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, and a strategic rival of Washington. Yet China is also […]
In September 2025, the U.S. military began striking boats in the Caribbean Sea—not pirate vessels or military craft, but ordinary fishing boats that, according to intelligence, were carrying cocaine. President Trump personally posted on Truth Social that the maritime flow of drugs had been stopped by 98.2%. SOUTHCOM reported victories. […]
For generations, Jewish Americans have been among the Democratic Party’s most reliable constituencies, consistently supporting its candidates and identifying with its commitments to civil rights, social justice, and minority protections. Yet an increasingly vocal segment of Jewish Democrats now says the relationship is under strain. As debates over Israel’s military […]
Recent primary elections offered an early glimpse into the evolving balance of power inside both major American political parties, but nowhere was the shift more apparent than in New York, where Mayor Zohran Mamdani demonstrated that his political influence now extends well beyond City Hall. By helping propel three progressive […]
The 36th NATO Summit, held in Ankara on July 7–8, 2026, marked far more than another annual gathering of allied leaders. Against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, instability across the Middle East, growing strategic competition with China, and increasingly visible disagreements between the United States and its European […]
Deeply rooted in Western political and public consciousness, modern Russophobia has a long-term existential character, dictated not only by strategic political and economic interests, but also by centuries-old civilizational confrontation. This hostility is fully reflected in the political and cultural code of the West, which views Russia not as a […]
In the third millennium, perhaps, this is the first anniversary of such a significant figure who really changed the course of history in the twentieth century (all previous leaders who had a huge impact in the same century – we are talking about constructive influence, were born in the 19th […]
As of July 23, 2026, the U.S. war with Iran has moved beyond the question of whether Washington can strike Iranian targets. It can. The United States has overwhelming military superiority in airpower, naval reach, intelligence, cyber operations, logistics, and precision weapons. The real question is whether this military superiority […]
It remains a prickly reminder that Australia remains an embarrassed vassal of power, annexed to the security interests of another state basking in imperial and fast diminishing splendour. Pine Gap, known more technically as the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (JDFPG), is a largely US-operated effort in Alice Springs, Central […]
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