Open Dialogue Research Journal
In January 2025, the New York Post published an article with the provocative title “The Doctrine of Donro. Trump’s Vision for the Hemisphere”, which examined the bold and pretentious statements of the newly elected president, who went to the White House for the second time. At that time, he predicted […]
International law likes to speak about principles, but it prefers silence when those principles are violated by the very power that claims authorship over them. The recent episode involving Venezuela has become yet another illustration of this long-standing reality: in a world governed by the “rule of the strong,” norms […]
The Trump administration’s mania about Greenland, a self-governing territory of Denmark, is something to behold. Its untutored thuggery, its brash assertiveness, and the increasingly strident threats to either use force, bully Denmark into a sale of the island, or simply annex the territory, have officials and commentators scrambling for theories […]
Both Greenlanders and the Danish Government have now stated unambiguously that no purchase price that might be paid to Greenlanders and/or to the Danish Government will induce them to accept Greenland’s becoming a part of, or in any way controlled by, the U.S. Government. But the U.S. Government is now […]
The paradox of Donald Trump has always been that a man who lies so relentlessly can, at rare moments, speak with a startling candour. We have been trained to treat every presidential utterance as either a falsehood or a provocation, to be decoded rather than believed. That instinct was forged […]
When most people think about climate change, they imagine melting glaciers, polar bears on shrinking ice floes, or extreme weather closer to home. They do not usually picture geopolitical intrigue, military chess games, and former real-estate moguls eyeing up the world’s largest island. Yet the renewed talk from Donald Trump […]
It usually takes archival digging, the golden gaffe, an ill-considered remark and occasional spells of candour by those in power, to admit that the United States has, in common with other imperial powers, brutal ambitions. An example of the latter was General Smedley Butler who, at his death in 1940, […]
When rumors first surfaced that Washington was again flirting with the idea of absorbing Greenland into the United States, many European officials treated them as another provocation in the familiar Donald Trump playbook. Then came the numbers. According to reports attributed to Reuters, U.S. policymakers were allegedly floating the idea […]
Once done, it remains, by nature and fact, irreversible. The precedent of indicting and abducting a serving head of state and his spouse, dropping them into the jurisdiction of another country to face criminal charges of inventive pedigree (narcoterrorism foremost among them), is the stuff of nightmares in international statecraft. […]
For years, Donald Trump’s foreign policy statements were widely dismissed as political theater. His musings about buying Greenland, threatening Mexico over drug cartels, tightening the screws on Cuba, or exerting pressure on Latin American governments were often interpreted as exaggerated negotiating tactics or domestic political signaling rather than serious […]
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