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Editor in chief: Said Batrouni
PEN Name: Marcos Fidel
Infiltrator tries to turn on Starlink for Russia
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 26 July 2026 Wars have always depended upon communications. From mounted couriers and semaphore […]
Russia’s Economy Encounters the Limits of War
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 26 July 2026 The latest forecasts from the Central Bank of Russia mark an […]
Justice Under Pressure: The Dismissal of Karim Khan and the Politics of International Criminal Law
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 25 July 2026 The dismissal of Karim Khan as Prosecutor of the International Criminal […]
Europe’s forthcoming ban on Russian gas tankers
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 25 July 2026 Before armies advance, financiers calculate and insurers hesitate. Before governments issue […]
What Is It Like to Be a Large Language Model?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 25 July 2026 In 1974 the philosopher Thomas Nagel posed a deceptively simple question […]
Bringing Europe’s Margins into the Union: Enlargement in an Age of Frozen Conflicts
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 24 July 2026 The European Union has long defined itself as a peace project. […]
Gödel, Consciousness and the Limits of Artificial Intelligence
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 24 July 2026 The contemporary debate over whether large language models might one day […]
Blade Runner and the Contemporary Imagination of Artificial Intelligence
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 23 July 2026 Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, released in 1982 and set in a […]
What the Balkan Wars Can — and Cannot — Teach Ukraine
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 23 July 2026 Every war acquires its own mythology. Those searching for guidance instinctively […]
Why the Stereotype? Fidelity, Society and Relationships in Russia
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 23 July 2026 Few national stereotypes are as casually repeated as the assertion that […]
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Crimea Under Pressure: Ukraine’s Long Campaign Against Russia’s Southern Bastion
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