Open Dialogue Research Journal
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won Sunday’s presidential runoff against the right-wing senator Flávio Bolsonaro, securing a fourth term that begins in January. The result ends a tense campaign, but it opens a harder phase. Brazil’s economy has beaten expectations in recent years, yet the government now faces mounting debt, […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_6BM8nuc4U 28 October 2026 in Atlanta THEN PLEASE WELCOME TO THE STAGE the 44th President of the United States, President Barack Obama. >> Hello Atlanta. [screaming] Hello for folks. [cheering] Ah, it is good to be back in Georgia. It is great to BE WITH YOU. IT’S GREAT TO be […]
The morning after Aleksandar Vucic’s surprise defeat, Serbian voters still did not know who would replace him. The movement that ousted him, Student List, won 53% of the vote in a snap election that Vucic himself had called in response to protests over alleged government corruption. The group is expected […]
Three days after losing Brazil’s presidential runoff to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro has reportedly left the country. Brazilian media, citing people close to the family, say he is heading to the United States and intends to request political asylum. Argentina’s government has confirmed part […]
The synchronicity with which Joey Mannarino, Valentina Gomez, Javier Negre and Weronika Rogowska suddenly started speaking is hard to miss. These were not isolated comments about Serbia. The same set of talking points, nearly identical formulations, the same framing: the Student List is a leaderless construct; the protests involve “Bosnian […]
Israel votes on Tuesday in its first national election since Hamas’s surprise attack of 7 October 2023, an event that shook the country, triggered war in Gaza and with Hamas’s allies in Lebanon and Iran, and plunged the region into turmoil. Opinion polls have predicted for months that Prime Minister […]
On Sunday night Aleksandar Vucic, the populist and nationalist who has dominated Serbian politics as prime minister or president since 2014, stood before television cameras and conceded defeat. “It is clear that we have lost these elections, the Student List has won,” he said. Within moments, tens of thousands of […]
At a rally in Grand Island, Nebraska, on Monday night, Donald Trump told supporters he hoped for a “tremendous victory” in November. He then described the high prices caused by the Iran war as a “small price to pay for keeping the world safe – keeping our country safe”. […]
Serbia has reached a point where the familiar order is no longer working. More than twelve years of dominance by the Serbian Progressive Party and Aleksandar Vučić ended with his own acknowledgment of defeat. According to the preliminary count, the “Student List” has secured an absolute majority in parliament with […]
“This is not an ordinary election victory; this is an avalanche that has wiped out an authoritarian regime and entire political scene.” Nebojša Vladisavljević, University of Belgrade, BBC News, October 26, 2026 When the flagging intelligentsia and jaded reformists retire to their offices of despair and forget that better days […]
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