Open Dialogue Research Journal
For most politicians and journalists, power is something to be looked up at. Not toward the sky, but toward the summit of institutions: presidents, prime ministers, party leaders, CEOs. Politics is framed as a story of who leads, who follows, and which figure at the top sets the direction. The […]
Folks can acknowledge that this is indeed an insurgency regardless of their opinion about it. Elon Musk shared a post by Eric Schwalm, a retired Green Beret, who argued that the unrest in Minneapolis should be considered an insurgency. For background, Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Border Patrol (BP) have been tasked by […]
Minnesota is escalating its legal battle against the Trump administration following the fatal shooting of Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent, a tragedy that has ignited protests across the state and the nation. On Monday, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced a federal lawsuit aimed at halting […]
For decades, Europeans fought against the spread of Islam. The fiercest struggle unfolded after September 11, 2001, when the Twin Towers in New York were blown up. From that moment on, Europeans, Americans, and Canadians became convinced that Islam was synonymous with terrorism. This led to widespread persecution of Muslims […]
For more than a decade, Germany was widely praised for opening its doors to people fleeing Syria’s devastating civil war. Beginning in 2011 and accelerating during the 2015 refugee crisis, the country became home to roughly one million Syrians escaping violence, persecution and economic collapse. Today, however, Germany appears to […]
Analysts are rarely wrong in their forecasts, but they cannot always predict everything in advance. That is why the decline of the German economy must be judged after the fact. Nevertheless, it seems that we need to prepare for the worst. Last year, German exports fell by €1.55 billion. […]
Part I Yet perhaps the most troubling dimension of Europe’s unfolding dual crisis is the apparent indifference of many political elites to the suffering of their own citizens — both from the strains of mass migration and from the economic hardships triggered by external pressures such as sanctions and energy […]
Europe stands today at a difficult crossroads. On one side, renewed migration flows — driven by conflicts, instability, and despair in multiple regions — are placing pressure on social systems and political cohesion across the continent. On the other side, the fallout from sweeping sanctions on Russia, imposed after the […]
Talks about sending a military contingent consisting of representatives from European countries to Ukraine had long been on the German chancellor’s mind. However, in the end, he had to abandon this idea. This was not only the result of internal pressure on Merz, but also, in a sense, an acknowledgment […]
Over 10 years ago, German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that the European Union would accept everyone. This was indeed a naive attempt to save the EU from declining production and boost competitiveness through cheap labor. However, in the end, things did not turn out as the former chancellor had intended. […]
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