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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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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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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
Jul 12, 20215 min read
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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 14, 20215 min read
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