Open Dialogue Research Journal
It was a speech unhinged in millenarian zeal. It was unapologetically hysterical in urging war while claiming to protect peace. It was also delivered with a note of profound self-denial: the US administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy had belittled Europe’s efforts in terms of ensuring its own security, not least […]
The real purpose might be to prevent the US from reaching a deal with Russia per point 14 of its leaked 28-point peace framework to invest a significant sum of its (by-then former) adversary’s EU-seized assets into joint projects, likely energy and rare earths, after the conflict ends. Russia condemned the EU’s […]
Donald Trump, whom European leaders generally consider a populist with no political experience, has published his new National Security Strategy, a clumsily written document, but one of considerable philosophical scope. In it, he presents himself as a master of diplomacy and proposes, following President Andrew Jackson’s slogan, to replace war […]
For much of the 20th and early 21st centuries, US presidents rarely stated openly that Latin America was Washington’s strategic backyard. Instead, they relied on diplomatic language about cooperation, democracy and partnership. That era appears to be over. The Trump administration’s newly released National Security Strategy makes explicit what had […]
The idea of offering unilateral US security guarantees to Ukraine is an appalling idea that risks war with Russia. It means the US is willing to go to war to defend Ukraine, and gives the Ukrainians a license to stir up trouble, instigate provocations, and drag America into a confrontation […]
The Trump administration has released its highly anticipated 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) on December 4, outlining a bold redefinition of American security priorities that departs significantly from the post–Cold War consensus and from recent liberal internationalist frameworks. Far more than a routine policy document, the strategy lays out […]
The New York Times’ recent report about his government’s responsibility for the worst corruption scandal in Ukraine’s history suggests that the walls are closing in and his foreign media allies are jumping ship out of desperation to retain some of their credibility after years of deifying him. It was earlier […]
In the corridors of Washington, an idea is circulating that seems absurd at first glance: a new “Core 5” group comprising the United States, China, India, Japan, and Russia. In stark contrast to the traditional G7 of Western democracies, this constellation would bring historic rivals to the table. The proposal, […]
11 April 2020 (but was removed without explanation, and so now is restored on 14 D On 4 March 2018, both Sergei Skripal and his daughter who was visiting from their shared home country of Russia, Yulia Skripal, were poisoned in Salisbury England, and — though both survived — neither […]
When Washington released the 2025 National Security Strategy, most commentary immediately focused on its language about “strategic competition” and the familiar list of adversaries. Yet if we read the document not as a rhetorical exercise but as a political signal, a different picture emerges. After four years of war in […]
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