Editor in chief

Editor in chief: Said Batrouni
PEN Name: Marcos Fidel
Swedish sightings of Russian submarines
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Swedish sightings of Russian submarines have become a kind of seismograph for security tensions in […]
America’s retreat and the global defence industry
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The United States has long been the world’s pre-eminent armourer, supplying weapons on a scale […]
Russia’s unwinnable war (II)
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The endurance of Ukraine in the face of Russia’s full-scale invasion has already altered the […]
Regulating Social Media to Promote Reasoned Debate
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The world’s great public squares have moved indoors. What were once conversations in cafés, arguments […]
Population decline in Ukraine
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Ukraine’s demographic travails did not begin with Russia’s full-scale assault upon her in 2022. The […]
The United Kingdom’s Nightfall Missile
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Nightfall is the name given to the United Kingdom’s emerging project to develop a new […]
Belarus After Lukashenko: A European Strategy for Isolation of Russia
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The longevity of Alyaksandr Lukashenko’s rule has led many observers to assume that Belarus is […]
Russia’s Arctic Hydrocarbons Export Programme (II)
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Russia’s ambition to reorient her hydrocarbons exports towards the Arctic is not merely a logistical […]
Russia’s Unwinnable War (I)
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The proposition that Russia cannot win the war in Ukraine is not merely a political […]
Russia as a Chinese vassal and Putin’s pivot to Modi
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The longer the war in Ukraine persists, the more Russia finds herself entangled in a […]



