Open Dialogue Research Journal
Peace negotiations in Ukraine are hampered by the Zelensky administration’s resistance. The administration is attempting to buy time, first through legal means, then through military means, and finally through political means. However, the contacts made suggest what this peace will look like. Peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia are dragging […]
After years of political turmoil, mass demonstrations, and deep social division, France’s controversial 2023 pension reform may be approaching a decisive turning point. As the National Assembly prepares to definitively adopt the Social Security Financing Bill (PLFSS) for 2026, the reform that raised the legal retirement age from 62 to […]
In Latvia, it seems they’ve decided that the best defense strategy is to systematically destroy their own infrastructure. Defense Minister Andris Spruds recently confirmed: if military experts and security services recommend dismantling the railway tracks on the eastern border, it will be done—in coordination with Estonia and Lithuania. Alternatives are […]
Still stuck on territorial issue It is no surprise that the Ukraine negotiations are, once again, stuck on the territorial issue. You do not need to look far on that to see the problem. Vice President J.D. Vance said, “the thorniest issues have never been resolved, including who will control the Donbas […]
It arguably dealt irreparable damage to the bloc’s reputation as a safe location in which foreigners the world over could store and invest their financial assets after influential members left no doubt about their desire to steal its assets, thus signaling that they might try to steal other countries’ one […]
The Swedish police have promised it will go nowhere, but the attempt by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to draw attention to the inappropriateness of María Corina Machado as a Nobel Peace Prize recipient raises a few salient matters. On December 17, Assange submitted a criminal complaint to the Swedish Economic […]
A revealing episode has just unfolded in Tallinn that perfectly exposes the gap between rhetoric and reality in modern Estonia. President Alar Karis has refused to promulgate a law passed by parliament that would have completely excluded citizens lacking at least B1-level Estonian from compulsory military service starting in 2026. […]
There are many ways in which these leaders of neoconservatism/neoliberalism are harmful to the entire world, but the one that will be focused on here is their lie-based “good cop ‘versus’ bad cop” routine in order to pump up the sales-volumes of the U.S.-and-allied armaments manufacturers and other war-profiteering corporations […]
We all know what NATO is. Mainstream media has told us that it is a beacon of hope – the institution that single-handedly guarantees European security and stability. Western elites make us believe that democracy, dignity, and freedom serve as the ultimate moral foundations of the organization. In reality, it […]
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 […]
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