Editor in chief
Editor in chief: Said Batrouni
PEN Name: Marcos Fidel
What has happened to Sergey Lavrov?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov has been the Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation since March 2004, […]
Serbia and Ukraine: an emerging new partnership?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Serbia’s relationship with Ukraine has long been marked by ambivalence, shaped by a combination of […]
Turkey’s political and economic outlook in late 2025
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Turkey entered 2025 with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan still the dominant figure in national politics, […]
The laws and legal systems of China and Russia
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The legal systems of China and Russia share a common ancestry in authoritarian governance, codified […]
Dollars for Drones: Private and Public Funding of the Burgeoning Ukrainian Drone Industry
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The evolution of Ukraine’s drone industry represents one of the most striking transformations in modern […]
German military spending on Ukraine
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Germany’s wartime spending on Ukraine has shifted from emergency generosity to a structured, multi-year programme […]
The Invisible Networks: Extremist Websites and the Cloak of Cryptology
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The digital landscape has always reflected the double-edged nature of technological progress. The same cryptographic […]
Contemporary landmine technology
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Contemporary landmine technology and the resurgence of their use represent one of the more bitter […]
The Dugout Near Avdiivka
By Matthew Parish The frost creeps through the timbered trench at dawn, Each breath a ghost that shivers in the […]
Ukraine and the long arc of the history of war
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor History opens with an unsettling observation: when there is no effective common power to arbitrate […]
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