Open Dialogue Research Journal
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won Sunday’s presidential runoff against the right-wing senator Flávio Bolsonaro, securing a fourth term that begins in January. The result ends a tense campaign, but it opens a harder phase. Brazil’s economy has beaten expectations in recent years, yet the government now faces mounting debt, […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_6BM8nuc4U 28 October 2026 in Atlanta THEN PLEASE WELCOME TO THE STAGE the 44th President of the United States, President Barack Obama. >> Hello Atlanta. [screaming] Hello for folks. [cheering] Ah, it is good to be back in Georgia. It is great to BE WITH YOU. IT’S GREAT TO be […]
One can oppose both Polish meddling in Ukraine and EU meddling in Poland since what’s happening in Poland is no less consequential than what happened in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova published a detailed post about Poland on Telegram that’s worth reading. It’s surprisingly informative considering that she […]
Poland is facing one of the most serious constitutional crises in its recent history. What began as a dispute over judicial appointments has escalated into a confrontation over control of the Constitutional Tribunal, with police deployed around the court, judges challenging one another’s authority, and President Karol Nawrocki cutting short […]
Two hundred and fifty years after independence, the republic faces a familiar question: what happens when citizens stop believing that their institutions represent them? America’s revolutionary inheritance contains a difficult contradiction. The country celebrates the overthrow of an established political order while asking successive generations to preserve the institutions that […]
Poland’s German-backed liberal premier wants to hamstring the US-backed conservative president’s efforts to lead the EU’s reform into a union of nation-states if his allies return to power next fall, which would save it from becoming a German-dominated federation and turn Poland into a regional power. Liberal Polish Prime Minister […]
The third Russia–Africa Summit has just wrapped up in Gostiny Dvor and the Grand Kremlin Palace. Forty-eight delegations. Twenty-two heads of state. A final declaration, an Action Plan for 2027–2029, and a separate document on the civilian use of artificial intelligence. If in 2019 in Sochi the two sides were […]
The morning after Aleksandar Vucic’s surprise defeat, Serbian voters still did not know who would replace him. The movement that ousted him, Student List, won 53% of the vote in a snap election that Vucic himself had called in response to protests over alleged government corruption. The group is expected […]
Israel’s defense minister stood before a map of southern Lebanon this week and described a fait accompli. More than 60 villages erased. Twenty-three thousand homes reduced to rubble. A 700-square-kilometer “security zone” carved into Lebanese territory, emptied of 200,000 Shiite residents, declared permanent until Hezbollah disarms. “We will not withdraw,” […]
This fact combines with Russia’s positive reputation in their eyes to explain why so many of the continent’s countries are nowadays eagerly expanding cooperation with it despite Western pressure. Moscow hosted the third Russia-Africa Summit this week, which has been held every couple of years since the inaugural one in […]
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