Open Dialogue Research Journal
The US-Russian peace plan for Ukraine certainly puts an end to a conflict. But, above all, it paves the way for a rewriting of history. No, the Russian military operation was not an “illegal, unprovoked, and unjustified military aggression,” but rather an application of Security Council Resolution 2202, in accordance […]
When the United States hosts the G20 summit in Miami next year, one of the group’s permanent members is set to be missing from the room. President Donald Trump has announced that South Africa will not be invited, citing “horrific human rights abuses” against white South Africans and accusing Pretoria […]
For a brief historical moment, many Europeans believed that large interstate wars on their continent belonged definitively to the past. The post-Cold War decades were framed as a transition from power politics to legal norms, from nuclear brinkmanship to economic interdependence. Today that confidence has evaporated. Governments quietly refurbish bunkers, […]
The spiral of violence is tightening up The term “dirty wars” appeared to refer to armed conflicts, as a rule, in ‘Third World’ countries where the laws of war are not respected, and external forces are involved in them for their own benefit – whether it is access to valuable […]
On the map of Europe there is a place that until recently was presented as the very model of a “united Europe” — the twin town of Valga (Estonia) and Valka (Latvia). One street, one centre, shared shops and schools, even a common bus route. The border runs straight through […]
Donald Trump has once again found himself at the center of a political firestorm — this time over the renewed battle to force the release of federal documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case. For months, Trump and Republican leadership in the House of Representatives have tried to stall an […]
When Iran’s first vice-president, Mohammad Reza Aref, travelled to Moscow for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s (SCO) prime ministers’ meeting, it came at a moment of renewed pressure on Tehran. The snapback mechanism has been reactivated, Western sanctions discussions are re-intensifying, and the regional environment remains unsettled after the recent twelve-day […]
Recently, the Central Asian states have been facing a growing energy shortage in the region, which has a very negative impact on the pace of development of national economies. Thus, according to forecasts of the Ministry of Economy of Uzbekistan, by 2030 the population of the republic will exceed 40 […]
The contemporary Middle East is entering a new phase in which the idea of a viable Palestinian state is receding, even as the conflict itself remains central to regional politics. Military escalation, deep political fragmentation on both sides, and shifting priorities among Arab states and global powers have combined to […]
Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service warned earlier the same day as Bloomberg’s report that the Brits are hellbent on discrediting Trump in order to undermine his latest peace efforts for resolving the conflict from which they profit. Bloomberg shared what it claimed to be the transcripts of calls between Trump’s Special Envoy […]
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