Open Dialogue Research Journal
It has been six months since Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a radical Islamist group led by Abu Mohammad al-Julani – now known as Ahmed al-Sharaa – seized control over parts of Syria. This significant development reshaped the landscape of the Syrian conflict, which has been ongoing since 2011 and has […]
In July 2025, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu submitted a letter of nomination for U.S. President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. In the world we imagined decades ago—where the Nobel Peace Prize once evoked memories of Martin Luther King Jr., Desmond Tutu, or even Yitzhak Rabin—such a move […]
Los Angeles is one of the most diverse cities in the U.S. and it has again become the epicenter of a fierce societal conflict. Massive immigration raids, military patrols on city streets, and widespread protests have turned the city into a battleground between two ideologies: those calling for strict border […]
The government has changed in Germany, but the challenges for Alexander Dobrindt remain the same: migration, attacks on Germans, violence from newcomers and attempts by migrants to change the country’s culture by adapting it to themselves. This is something that can’t help but confuse Germans who are not going to […]
Their refined Hybrid War model will involve efforts to win the “tech race”, a new Western division of labor for containing Russia in Europe, and AI-generated anti-Russian infowars. Russia’s natural resource wealth and new role in accelerating multipolar processes incentivize the West to continue its Hybrid War on Russia even in the event of peace […]
On July 5th, Bloomberg News headlined “BlackRock Halted Ukraine Fund Talks After Trump’s Election Win”, and opened: BlackRock halted its search for investors for a Ukraine recovery fund earlier this year due to a lack of interest amid increased uncertainty over Ukraine’s future. The fund was meant to be unveiled at […]
De-escalation has become one of those coarse words in severe need of banishment, best kept in an index used by unredeemable hypocrites. It is used by the living dead in human resources, management worthies and war criminals. It’s almost always used to target the person or entity that exerts retribution […]
The United States regularly criticizes its European NATO allies for insufficient defense spending, arguing that they shift the primary financial burden onto American taxpayers. However, a significant portion of European defense budgets flows back to the U.S. through purchases of arms and military equipment from American companies, generating economic benefits […]
This September marks eighty years since the end of World War II and the defeat of the Imperial Japanese Army by the Soviet Union and the liberation of Northeastern China and the northern part of the Korean Peninsula from Japanese occupation. It was decided to divide Korea into North and […]
This could stimulate US-Brazilian ties, comparatively reduce China’s role in Brazil’s balancing act if India’s role therein soon becomes more significant, and fuel Western media speculation about China’s commitment to the group. Chinese President Xi Jinping declined to travel to Rio for the latest BRICS Summit on the reported pretext of scheduling […]
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