Editor in chief
Editor in chief: Said Batrouni
PEN Name: Marcos Fidel
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 […]
Open Source Intelligence in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Dead, Transformed, or Ascendant?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 9 April 2026 Open source intelligence — commonly abbreviated as OSINT — has long […]
The moral economy of volunteering in Ukraine during times of war
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 8 April 2026 War rearranges not only borders and armies, but also the invisible […]
Russia’s academic isolation
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 8 April 2026 The gradual constriction of intellectual exchange between the Russian Federation and […]
Donald Trump negotiates with himself
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 8 April 2026 In the theatre of international diplomacy, ambiguity has long been an […]
The Bot War on X
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 8 April 2026 Recent disclosures by the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) have […]
The Iran-Iraq war – lessons for the modern era
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 8 April 2026 The Iran–Iraq War, fought from September 1980 until August 1988, was […]
Most Readings
