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Christopher Soelistyo
- Feb 23
- 5 min
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
- Jan 30
- 12 min
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 7
- 6 min
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
- 16 min
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 2
- 6 min
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
- 6 min
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
- Dec 30, 2022
- 15 min
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 10, 2022
- 20 min
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
- Nov 11, 2022
- 24 min
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, 2022
- 18 min
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....
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