Open Dialogue Research Journal
I asked ChatGPT: “Is Trump’s deal with Denmark and Greenland basically equivalent to the U.S. owning Greenland?” Not legally. But in the military-security sphere, the September 22, 2026 agreement gives the United States powers over Greenland that resemble some of the most important practical powers an owner—or sovereign—would possess. The […]
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 […]
For much of the post-Cold War period, Slovakia occupied a relatively quiet place in European politics. Nestled between larger Central European powers and deeply integrated into the European Union and NATO, the country rarely shaped continental debates. Today, however, Prime Minister Robert Fico has transformed Slovakia into one of Europe’s […]
China’s economy is pulling in two directions at once, and July’s data makes the split harder to ignore. On one side, household spending is barely growing and the property sector remains locked in a multi-year collapse. On the other, factories are running hotter than ever, with high-tech manufacturing surging at […]
Christine Lagarde doesn’t typically frame central bank speeches around geopolitical vulnerability, but her address in Vienna this week did exactly that. The European Central Bank president argued that Europe’s growing reliance on American and Chinese artificial intelligence isn’t just a competitiveness gap – it’s a strategic exposure that could hand […]
Ursula von der Leyen’s proposal to make Canada the European Union’s first-ever “associate member” produced one of the more theatrical moments of this week’s State of the European Union address: lawmakers rising to their feet, the Commission president crossing the chamber to embrace Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in person. […]
On Wednesday, 16 September 2026, something happened in Strasbourg that would have seemed pure fantasy just a few years ago. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, delivering her annual State of the Union address, formally proposed that Canada become the European Union’s first “associate member.” Canadian Prime Minister Mark […]
Had former Chancellor Angela Merkel and her successors remained true to Helmut Kohl’s vision, then the AfD might never have become Germany’s most popular party, so its astronomical rise is entirely their fault. Putin was asked about the AfD’s recent landslide victory in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt on the sidelines of […]
The ruling liberal coalition is suffering from “Russophrenia”. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote that Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski has “Russophobia of the brain” after he declared that “we would defeat Russia quite quickly” “if Russia attacks us and we took our gloves off”. While her post claimed that he was referring […]
For decades, Europe and the United States treated their trans-Atlantic relationship as more than an alliance. It was the political infrastructure of the Western order itself. Washington provided much of the military power, Europe benefited from security and economic stability, and both sides presented a common vision of international governance […]
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