Open Dialogue Research Journal
Their social contract of economic growth, security, and staying away from citizens’ personal lives for the most part has been greatly challenged by the ongoing conflict, but foreign efforts to influence voters into dealing the ruling party a defeat inspired them to defiantly rally around it instead. The ruling United […]
rl Friedrich Merz has been chancellor for just 16 months, and he’s already facing the kind of electoral test that could determine whether he serves out anything close to a full term. Voters in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania went to the polls Sunday in elections that, on paper, are regional […]
Final results are still coming in, but one thing is already certain: United Russia, the party founded by incumbent Russian President Vladimir Putin, is set to gain an absolute majority of seats in the State Duma, the lower chamber of Russia’s parliament. After 97% of the votes had been counted, […]
Political power in Germany rarely collapses overnight. It erodes first – in lost votes, in failed personnel reshuffles, in polling numbers that keep sliding without a clear floor – and only later does that erosion translate into an actual change of leadership. That’s the framework German political analysts are now […]
Part I Part II The rise of Donald Trump cannot be understood without examining this broader environment of distrust. While discussions of Trumpism often focus on rhetoric, personality, or controversial statements, its electoral success reflects deeper structural conditions that predate his political career. For many voters, Trump did not necessarily […]
Whatever awaits him this coming November, few politicians could claim to have the endurance, bloody mindedness and sense of granite staying power than Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu. With some prowess, he has wooed, deceived, and lied his way to power, and, for the most part, stayed the course for the best […]
Russia is entering the final days before its 2026 State Duma elections against an increasingly tense domestic and international backdrop. Voting will take place from September 18 to 20, with all 450 seats in the State Duma at stake. The election is the first parliamentary vote since the beginning of […]
They all call it “far right” on account of that Party’s “remigration” policy of dealing with what is widely considered by Germans to be excessive allowance of immigrants into Germany. There is no other basis on which that term or phrase “far right” is being applied to the AfD. Obviously, […]
Primary night after primary night, a pattern keeps repeating in Democratic contests around the country: candidates running well to the left of the party establishment, often with a fraction of their opponents’ campaign budgets, keep winning. Pundits have spent months debating why. The explanations on offer range from genuine ideological […]
The collapse in 1991 of such a powerful nuclear superpower as the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century, which destroyed the post-World War II balance of power in the world and untied the hands of the West for unpunished actions in various regions of the […]
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