Editor in chief
Editor in chief: Said Batrouni
PEN Name: Marcos Fidel
The Ukraine / Russia Easter ceasefire: what prospects for a broader peace?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 11 April 2026 The announcement of a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia over the […]
The rise of Turkey as a regional Middle Eastern power
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 11 April 2026 The rise of Turkey as a regional power broker in the […]
Polymarket: gambling with the future
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 11 April 2026 Prediction markets have long occupied an ambiguous position between finance, information […]
Anthropic: too dangerous for public release?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 10 April 2026 In April 2026 the American artificial intelligence company Anthropic took the […]
Iran’s fees for using the Strait of Hormuz – cryptocurrency
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 10 April 2026 The Strait of Hormuz has long been the narrow valve through […]
Serbian and Israeli cooperation over Israel’s Elbit Systems drones
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 10 April 2026 Serbia’s announcement that she intends to deepen cooperation with Israel’s Elbit […]
Russia’s use of foreign soldiers in Ukraine
By Matthew Parish Thursday 9 April 2026 The war in Ukraine has from its earliest days carried echoes of older […]
Large language models and the Anglo-Saxon bias
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 9 April 2026 The great promise of large language models lies in their apparent […]
Who won – and who lost – the US–Iran war?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 9 April 2026 The brief but ferocious conflict between the United States and Iran […]
Russia in 2026: on the back foot in Ukraine
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 9 April 2026 By the spring of 2026 the trajectory of Russia’s war against […]
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