Editor in chief

Editor in chief:  Said Batrouni

PEN Name:  Marcos Fidel

Russia Against the Post-Cold War Order: The Evolution of an Existential Struggle Since 2008

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 17 June 2026 The year 2008 marks a useful point of departure for understanding […]

17.06.2026

Trump at Eighty: Age, Authority and the Fragility of Presidential Power

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 16 June 2026 The office of President of the United States has always imposed […]

16.06.2026

Ukrainian remote de-mining innovations

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 16 June 2026 Ukraine is often described as the most heavily mined country in […]

16.06.2026

International regulation of artificial intelligence

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 16 June 2026 A recurrent mistake in discussions about artificial intelligence is to assume […]

16.06.2026

The Kremlin Echo Chamber: Vladimir Putin and the Perils of Self-Imposed Isolation

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 16 June 2026 One of the enduring dangers of autocratic government is that power […]

16.06.2026

Russia and the Western Far Right: A Relationship of Convenience

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 15 June 2026 One of the most curious political developments of the early twenty-first […]

15.06.2026

The War Behind the Front: Ukraine’s Campaign Against Russia’s Energy Arteries

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 15 June 2026 For much of the first three years of Russia’s full-scale invasion […]

15.06.2026

Peace Through Ambiguity? Assessing the New United States–Iran Agreement

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 15 June 2026 The announcement of a peace agreement between the United States and […]

15.06.2026

The Eastern Mediterranean in Transition: Türkiye, Israel, Iran, Lebanon, and the Fracturing of Regional Order

Badawi — The Eastern Mediterranean in Transition​Anadolu Agency Submission The Eastern Mediterranean in Transition: Türkiye, Israel, Iran, Lebanon, and the […]

15.06.2026

Generation Z and the Mirror of Modernity

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 14 June 2026 Every generation believes that the one following it has somehow gone […]

14.06.2026