Christopher Soelistyo
Reading "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine" by Rashid Khalidi
This book by Palestinian-American historian Rashid Khalidi is an attempt to F-cast the entirety of Zionist and Israeli history as a...
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Christopher Soelistyo
- Jun 18
- 39 min
Reading "Not One Inch" by Mary E. Sarotte
This book is incredibly timely. Published just three months before Russia invaded Ukraine this February, "Not One Inch: America, Russia...
Christopher Soelistyo
- May 9
- 13 min
America: Ukraine's Armourer
Since the Russian invasion began on February 24th, military assistance to Ukraine from NATO member states has been impressive. The West...
Christopher Soelistyo
- May 3
- 10 min
War and Inflation
The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24th has delivered a massive shock to global markets, especially concerning such commodities...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Apr 21
- 21 min
Reading "Shutdown" by Adam Tooze
The Covid pandemic is the global crisis par excellence. Rarely, if ever, before had a singular event impacted so many people across the...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Apr 17
- 4 min
Ukraine: Financial War Against Russia
Since Russian forces invaded Ukraine on February 24th, the West has fought back with a devastating raft of economic and financial...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Apr 12
- 27 min
Reading "London Calling" by Alban Webb
Written by Broadcasting historian Alban Webb, London Calling: Britain, the BBC World Service and the Cold War is an eye-opening portrayal...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Mar 9
- 17 min
Ukraine: The "NATO Enlargement" Question
On February 24th, Vladimir Putin's Russia launched a war of aggression against Ukraine, under the strange pretexts of "genocide" against...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Mar 7
- 54 min
Reading "Imperial Brain Trust" by Laurence Shoup and William Minter
Who controls American foreign policy? The answer, according to Shoup and Minter, is a concentrated subsection of American society,...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Jan 29
- 25 min
Why is Ukraine the West's Fault?: Transcribing John Mearsheimer
For at least two months now, tensions between Russia and the West have ignited over a Russian military buildup on the borders of Ukraine,...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Jan 5
- 58 min
Reading "The Wages of Destruction" by Adam Tooze
How was it possible that for the second time in a generation, Germany should have embarked on a campaign of conquest and destruction,...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Oct 30, 2021
- 25 min
Reading "The Idea of the Brain" by Matthew Cobb
Zoology professor Matthew Cobb has delivered an exciting and accessible history of humanity's enduring journey to understand its own...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Aug 15, 2021
- 39 min
Reading "The How and the Why" by David Park
"The How and the Why: An Essay on the Origins and Development of Physical Theory" is an impressive monograph by Professor David Park on...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Aug 2, 2021
- 7 min
The US Exit from Afghanistan
On April 14th, US President Joe Biden announced that US forces would withdraw from Afghanistan by September 11th (recently pushed forward...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Jul 12, 2021
- 5 min
Militarised AI: A New Frontier of Warfare?
This article was originally published on UCL Pi Media in April 2019 under the title "Militarised AI: A Sinister Deus Ex Machina":...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Jun 29, 2021
- 9 min
Russia's Energy Relationship with the European Union
Relations between Russia and the European Union have long been uneasy. Geopolitics continues to be a source of tension, and the anxieties...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Jun 23, 2021
- 6 min
Tehran's Chinese Backstop
On June 19th, Iran's presidential election was won by a man widely described in Western media as a "hardliner" and "ultra-conservative"....
Christopher Soelistyo
- Jun 15, 2021
- 5 min
Kuwait: The Trials of an Oil Exporter
On June 13th, the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) announced the publication of its annual Economic Report, which revealed, among other...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Jun 14, 2021
- 5 min
Nuclear Weapons: The Logic of Strategic Superiority
(This is a re-post of an article that I wrote in February 2019, heavily influenced by Matthew Kroenig's book "The Logic of American...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Jun 13, 2021
- 5 min
Reading "The Jakarta Method" by Vincent Bevins
I began reading this expecting it to be a book about Washington's involvement in the enormous mass murder of Indonesians in 1965/66, but...