Open Dialogue Research Journal
At the end of June, the US Department of Defense made an official budget request for fiscal year 2026, worth of $961.6 billion. “This historic defense budget prioritizes strengthening homeland security, deterring Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific, revitalizing the US defense industrial base, and maintaining our commitment to being good […]
Turkiye sees an opportunity to turbocharge its rise as a Eurasian Great Power along Russia’s entire southern periphery in ways that autonomously align with American grand strategic interests. Russian-Azerbaijani relations are in trouble as a result of two scandals. The first concerns the recent police raid against suspected ethnic Azeri criminals in […]
The aftermath of Operation Midnight Hammer, a strike by the US Air Force on three nuclear facilities in Iran authorised by President Donald Trump on June 22, was raucous and triumphant. But that depended on what company you were keeping. The mission involved the bombing of the Fordow Fuel Enrichment […]
In February 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump made an unexpected statement: he claimed there was “no reason to spend nearly one trillion dollars on the military”, and expressed hope for an agreement with China and Russia to cut defense budgets in half. It sounded like a rare moment of reflection […]
One of the results of the last meeting between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul was an agreement between the two countries to continue humanitarian exchange. First of all, the exchange of survivors and wounded servicemen under the age of 25 took place. The young guys were exchanged according to the […]
The confidence trickster was at it again on his visit to The Hague, reluctantly meeting members of the overly large family that is NATO. President Donald Trump was hoping to impress upon all present that allies of the United States, whatever inclination and whatever their domestic policy, should spend mightily […]
Ever since the U.S. Government placed intensified primary and secondary economic sanctions against Germany’s biggest — and by far cheapest — fuels-source, Russia, in 2022, Germany’s economy, which had been the best-performing one in the EU, started declining, because of the soaring fuel prices that resulted from the German Government’s […]
Although the US strikes on Iran diverted attention away from the upcoming NATO summit in the Netherlands, after the peace deal in the Middle East, all eyes are back on the Alliance’s summit. Much effort was expended. European officials had been preparing this meeting for months. The key challenge was […]
The implications of Iran’s nuclear program are not what we think. Tehran renounced the atomic bomb in 1988, but is attempting, with Russia’s cooperation, to discover the secrets of nuclear fusion. If it succeeds, it would help the Southern states decolonize by freeing themselves from oil. As for the implications […]
Donald Trump’s second term as U.S. president has kicked off with a dramatic overhaul of the National Security Council (NSC), raising concerns among diplomatic observers about the future of U.S.-China relations. The recent dismissal of approximately 100 NSC staff members, many from the China team, coupled with the abrupt removal […]
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