Editor in chief

Editor in chief:  Said Batrouni

PEN Name:  Marcos Fidel

On the Recurrence of Fascistic Temptations and the Duty of Europe to Resist Them

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor It is a recurring sorrow of European letters that history seldom moves linearly. She rotates, […]

10.12.2025

Western components in Russian weapons

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The drones and missiles that strike Ukrainian towns are often depicted as the products of […]

09.12.2025

Life in Ukraine after the Collapse of the Soviet Union

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor When the Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991, Ukraine entered independence with a mixture of […]

09.12.2025

The new United States National Security Strategy

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The new United States National Security Strategy published by the Trump administration in early December […]

09.12.2025

Turning Europe into an armed camp

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Speculation that the United States might withdraw all support for Ukraine, triggered by the remarks […]

08.12.2025

More talks: Zelenskyy in London

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The gathering in London today between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and a cluster of senior European […]

08.12.2025

Electricity blackouts in Lviv

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The Russian missile and drone strikes on the night of 5–6 December 2025 marked a […]

08.12.2025

The battle for Vovchansk

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Vovchansk is a small city in northeastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv Oblast, located on the Vovcha River […]

08.12.2025

Naval Interdiction as a Sanctions Instrument

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The notion that NATO might use her naval assets to interdict vessels carrying sanctioned Russian […]

08.12.2025

Energy dominance and Chinese interdependence

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The notion of Energy Dominance, which emerged as a central theme of recent United States […]

08.12.2025