Editor in chief
Editor in chief: Said Batrouni
PEN Name: Marcos Fidel
Bringing Europe’s Margins into the Union: Enlargement in an Age of Frozen Conflicts
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 24 July 2026 The European Union has long defined itself as a peace project. […]
Gödel, Consciousness and the Limits of Artificial Intelligence
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 24 July 2026 The contemporary debate over whether large language models might one day […]
Blade Runner and the Contemporary Imagination of Artificial Intelligence
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 23 July 2026 Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, released in 1982 and set in a […]
What the Balkan Wars Can — and Cannot — Teach Ukraine
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 23 July 2026 Every war acquires its own mythology. Those searching for guidance instinctively […]
Why the Stereotype? Fidelity, Society and Relationships in Russia
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 23 July 2026 Few national stereotypes are as casually repeated as the assertion that […]
The Drone Arms Race Accelerates — Russia’s Jet-Powered Shaheds and Ukraine’s Search for Speed
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 23 July 2026 The war in Ukraine has repeatedly demonstrated that no military innovation […]
The Advocate in the Dock: Why the Rajiv Menon KC Contempt Proceedings Raise Profound Questions About Judicial Power
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 23 July 2026 Every legal system worthy of the name depends upon an uncomfortable […]
“And Suddenly Everything Felt So Meaningless”: Hämatom Guitarist Jacek Żyła on the Band’s Return to Ukraine
By Kathrin Franziska Beck German metal band Hämatom, formed in 2004 in the Upper Franconian town of Speichersdorf, are set […]
Cultural divergence between Ukrainians and the diaspora in wartime
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 23 July 2026 The war in Ukraine has not only redrawn front lines. It […]
The role of metaphysics in an era of artificial intelligence
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 22 July 2026 The contemporary panic about artificial intelligence is, at its core, a […]
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