Open Dialogue Research Journal
The race to choose the next United Nations secretary general has acquired an uncomfortable test case. The candidacy of Lana Nusseibeh, a minister of state of the United Arab Emirates and a former UAE ambassador to the UN, is reported to be gaining momentum and endorsements. It has also provoked […]
There was nothing new in the Reality Television President’s swill filled address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 22. Donald Trump had said much of it before, most of it with wearying derangement and detachment from reality. There were the bullying threats of annihilation and doomsday relish that […]
This month has seen the United Nations issue two reports alleging the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the United States in two theatres of engagement. In one, the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran concluded that the US had committed war […]
Politicians come to Bucha not so much to look as to be seen. Silver plaques, candles, flowers, solemn faces against the cameras. Over four years almost every notable figure in European politics has appeared here — Kaja Kallas, Andrius Kubilius, Antonio Tajani, Radosław Sikorski. And all of them utter the […]
Twenty-five years of overlapping claims, a collapsed joint development agreement, and deadly border clashes have finally pushed Cambodia and Thailand into a formal UN arbitration process – one so rarely used that only a single prior case exists to serve as a model for how it might actually play out. […]
There is much in the nature of a map. The very drawing of a line signifies an assertion, an acceptance, or even a repudiation of power. Borders are delineated for reasons of interest and understanding. I chart, therefore it is. Areas of territorial dispute are reconciled by the cartographer’s handy […]
Another bleak warning, another round of Cassandra calls about humanity’s immaculate sense of destructive self. This month, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (ICRC) Mirjana Spoljaric Egger issued a joint appeal stating that, “We are now dangerously […]
The slam-dunk legal argument that the answer to that question is yes, and that unless it’s done, the continuing failure to do it “would show that international legal norms, and rules of the UN binding member states, are applied on the basis of double standards: specifically, that states allied to powerful Western […]
On June 9, 1999, at the military airfield near Kumanovo, Lieutenant General of the Yugoslav Army Svetozar Marjanović and British General Michael Jackson signed the Military-Technical Agreement. The document ended the 78-day NATO air war against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. But what lay on the tables in Macedonia was […]
One of the special operation’s goals is to neutralize these Ukrainian terrorist threats to civilians that Russia long foresaw but was unable to preemptively avert through diplomatic means. Three waves of Ukrainian drones struck a dormitory in Starobelsk, a town in Russia’s formerly Ukrainian Lugansk Region, last week in an […]
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