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Editor in chief: Said Batrouni
PEN Name: Marcos Fidel
The Machine in the Mirror: Artificial Intelligence and the Discovery of Its Own Weaknesses
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 25 August 2026 There is a curious difference between intelligence and cleverness. Cleverness consists […]
Three Hundred Thousand More: Russia’s Next Army and Ukraine’s Answer
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 25 August 2026 There is a dangerous temptation in wars of attrition to become […]
Ian Bremmer and the World After the World Order
By Matthew Parish Tuesday 25 August 2026 There are political scientists who construct theories of international relations and there are […]
Thirty-Five Years of Independence: Ukraine’s Long Escape from the Soviet Empire
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 24 August 2026 On 24 August 2026 Ukraine celebrates thirty-five years since the Verkhovna […]
The Contest of the Machines: ChatGPT and the New Generation of Artificial Intelligence
By Matthew Parish Monday 24 August 2026 The difficulty with writing comparisons of large language models is that they become […]
The Teddy Bears of Stryiskyi Park
By Matthew Parish Monday 24 August 2026 Down in Stryiskyi Park, where the tall pines sway, The teddy bears wake […]
The Arsenal of Independence: Britain, Ukraine and the Long-Range Missile Revolution
By Matthew Parish Monday 24 August 2026 Andy Burnham’s arrival in Kyiv on 24 August 2026 — Ukrainian Independence Day […]
The Islamic NATO: A New Architecture of Power from Mecca?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 24 August 2026 Something potentially historic has happened in the Middle East, although — […]
Democracy Under Fire: Why Ukraine Cannot Hold Elections in an Existential War
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 24 August 2026 There is something superficially attractive about the proposition that Ukraine should […]
The Bankova Problem: Corruption, Power and the Ukrainian Presidency
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 23 August 2026 There are two mistakes that foreigners commonly make when discussing corruption […]
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