Open Dialogue Research Journal
For decades, climate change has been described in sweeping, almost abstract terms: rising temperatures, melting ice caps, intensifying storms. Governments debated targets, companies issued pledges, and individuals were urged to reduce their carbon footprints. Yet one fundamental question remained unresolved: who, exactly, is responsible for the damage – and how […]
In the geopolitics of the South Caucasus, Russia has for many years played the role of a force that maintained the balance, security, and practical ties between the countries of the region. That is why the new report by the Turan Research Center, titled “Moscow’s Last Stand in the South […]
In 2025, China once again became Germany’s most important trading partner, overtaking the United States after a brief shift in ranking the year before. According to newly released data from Germany’s Federal Statistical Office, the total trade volume between Germany and the People’s Republic of China reached €251.8 billion, placing […]
Relations between Canada and the United States have entered one of their most turbulent phases in decades. In a statement that would have seemed unthinkable just a few years ago, Prime Minister Mark Carney declared that the long-standing model of economic integration between the two countries has effectively come to […]
The US Faces Significant Challenges from China, Russia and North Korea In 1958 Senator John F. Kennedy, getting ready for his upcoming presidential campaign, said the United States faced a serious and dangerous missile gap. The Senator, later President, said: “The Soviet Union is rapidly building up a missile striking […]
Part I Iran has its own eschatology. In the tradition of Shiite Islam, it is said that the twelfth righteous Imam Mahdi, who remains in a hidden state, will return to this world on the eve of Judgment Day. Together with Christ (the prophet Isa in the Muslim teachings), he […]
After his visit to Beijing, Sergey Lavrov stated directly: both Russia and China are acting in the interests of the Serbian people. Aleksandar Vučić responded that nothing in what was said was untrue and that the message had been understood. These words reflect the current situation in the Balkans. For […]
China is still extremely vulnerable to the US Navy’s blackmail 13 years after BRI was announced due to the US’ Hybrid Warfare masterfully subverting these alternative trade corridors, but it took Iran’s petroyuan tollbooth to prompt the US to push forward its preplanned power play. Iran’s enforcement of sovereignty over the Strait […]
The rapid escalation of the war involving Iran has forced the world’s leading industrial economies to confront an uncomfortable reality: the global energy system remains dangerously vulnerable to geopolitical shocks. As oil prices surge and supply routes through the Persian Gulf face disruption, finance ministers from the Group of Seven are preparing emergency discussions […]
This study examines continuity and change in Eurasian multilateralism from COMECON and the Warsaw Pact to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Unlike its Soviet-era predecessors, the SCO adopts a flexible and pragmatic model linking security and economic development. However, this flexibility also limits the organization’s ability to manage internal disputes such […]
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