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The roots of Lebanon's financial crisis
This article was originally published  on UCL Pi Media in February 2021. Source: Flickr.  The explosion of August 4, 2020, came at a bad...
Christopher Soelistyo
Jul 208 min read
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Death from the Skies of Libya, Part III: The largest drone war in the world
This article was originally published  on UCL Pi Media in January 2021 as part III of a three-part series. Two Il-76 aircraft destroyed...
Christopher Soelistyo
Jul 207 min read
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Death from the skies of Libya, part II: Arming the Silk Roads
This article was originally published  on UCL Pi Media in November 2020 as part II of a three-part series. An MQ-9 Reaper flies above the...
Christopher Soelistyo
Jul 207 min read
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Death from the skies of Libya, part I: Arab Winter
This article was originally published on UCL Pi Media in November 2020 as part I of a three-part series. Armed troops in Libya. Image...
Christopher Soelistyo
Jul 207 min read
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Big Oil again peers into the abyss
This article was originally published on UCL Pi Media in September 2020. Source: Flickr This year, the oil and gas markets have been...
Christopher Soelistyo
Jul 207 min read
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Alliance of convenience: the Israeli-Emirati peace
This article was originally published on UCL Pi Media in August 2020. Photo by Snowscat on Unsplash. The recent announcement  of a full...
Christopher Soelistyo
Jul 207 min read
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Climate and conflict: the violent consequences of environmental crisis
This article was originally published on UCL Pi Media in March 2020. The Assad regime fell in December 2024, arguably marking the end...
Christopher Soelistyo
Jul 204 min read
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377A: The struggle for LGBT rights in Singapore
This article was originally published on UCL Pi Media in January 2020 ( https://uclpimedia.com/online/the-struggle-for-lgbt-rights-in-sin...
Christopher Soelistyo
Jul 205 min read
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Reviewing "What Is This Thing Called Science?" by Alan Chalmers
What exactly is science? Is there anything particularly special about scientific knowledge that distinguishes it from other forms of...
Christopher Soelistyo
Jul 2015 min read
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Reviewing "Unlikely Partners" by Julian Gewirtz
How did Chinese reformers gain the knowledge necessary to completely transform their economy in the 1980s? An answer could be found in...
Christopher Soelistyo
Jul 207 min read
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Ukraine's mineral resources
On September 30th, 2022, Vladimir Putin proclaimed the annexation of four Ukrainian regions to Russia. The move comprised an immediate...
Christopher Soelistyo
Feb 23, 20235 min read
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Reading "Economists with Guns" by Bradley Simpson
In the early/mid-1960s, U.S. policymakers saw Sukarno's Indonesia shifting dangerously to the left. The government was aligning with the...
Christopher Soelistyo
Jan 30, 202312 min read
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Kicking away the Chinese ladder
Since early 2018, the United States has imposed a series of tariffs and sanctions on China in a bid to rectify the yawning trade...
Christopher Soelistyo
Jan 7, 20236 min read
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Artificial Intelligence: The Technology of Social Control?
Introduction The rapid spread of COVID-19 in the spring of 2020 brought a massive shock to societies and economies across the world. As...
Christopher Soelistyo
Jan 7, 202316 min read
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Yemen, or the British arms sales we prefer to ignore
As American police fought to quell the nationwide protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd, on June 2, Emily Thornberry gave the...
Christopher Soelistyo
Jan 2, 20236 min read
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Militants: Pakistan's Catch-22
This article was originally published on UCL Pi Media in December 2019: https://uclpimedia.com/online/militants-pakistans-catch-22 It has...
Christopher Soelistyo
Jan 2, 20236 min read
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Reading "Who Lost Russia?" by Peter Conradi
Sunday Times editor Peter Conradi has written an accessible, engaging and comprehensive account of U.S.-Russian relations from the...
Christopher Soelistyo
Dec 30, 202215 min read
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Reading "The Killing Season" by Geoffrey Robinson
The anti-leftist purge in Indonesia in 1965-66, which resulted in half a million dead and a million detained without trial, has received...
Christopher Soelistyo
Dec 10, 202220 min read
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Reading "The Economic Weapon" by Nicholas Mulder
The Economic Weapon is a fascinating and highly reaable account of the birth of the modern economic sanctions, a tool, short of war yet...
Christopher Soelistyo
Nov 11, 202224 min read
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Reading "Tomorrow, the World" by Stephen Wertheim
This book by historian Stephen Wertheim is an impassioned account of the emergence of US global military dominance after World War II....
Christopher Soelistyo
Nov 11, 202218 min read
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