Imperium East and West

In Arena Quarterly Issue 10, titled ‘Imperium East and West’, we focus on the Russia–Ukraine war. Is it most of all Vladimir Putin’s urge to empire that is implicated in this disaster; is the West engaged in a proxy war, encouraging Ukrainians to fight and die for a US agenda; how much is a more general barbarity emerging, at least in part as a consequence of globalisation and the unravelling of democracy everywhere? There are articles on the election—the Albanese win and the Teals—on Woodside and the gas agenda, on the Queensland floods, on psychoanalysis and ‘lived experience’, on coffee and Melbourne, and much much more.