Editor in chief
Editor in chief: Said Batrouni
PEN Name: Marcos Fidel
Iran’s Strategic Imagination: Foreign Policy, Defence Doctrine, and the Psychology of Terror
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 7 March 2026 Iran’s contemporary foreign policy and defence posture cannot be understood solely […]
Russian intelligence support for Iran
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 7 March 2026 The war now unfolding in the Middle East has drawn in […]
The geopolitics of Iran’s strike upon Azerbaijan
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 6 March 2026 The Iranian drone strike on Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic on 5 […]
Ukraine as a Security Exporter: The Geopolitical Consequences of Kyiv’s Air Defence Assistance to the Middle East
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 6 March 2026 The war in Ukraine has transformed the country in many ways—militarily, […]
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini: Revolution, Theology and a Legacy of Enduring Confrontation
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 6 March 2026 When historians examine the ideological earthquakes of the twentieth century, few […]
Can Ukraine support the United States and her allies in the Middle East?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 6 March 2026 Ukraine’s war against Russia has forced her to innovate in ways […]
The Political Psychology of Nikita Khrushchev and the Arithmetic of Missiles
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 5 March 2026 The political psychology of Nikita Khrushchev cannot be understood without appreciating […]
Alliance, law and reluctance: Britain, the United States and the politics of joining other people’s wars
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 5 March 2026 In March 2026 the question of whether the United Kingdom should […]
The Arithmetic of Destruction: Why Eliminating Iran’s Ballistic Missiles May Mean a Long War
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 5 March 2026 In the opening stages of the present conflict between the United […]
A Kurdish invasion of western Iran
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 5 March 2026 The widening war between the United States, Israel and Iran has […]
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