Christopher SoelistyoJan 30, 202312 minReading "Economists with Guns" by Bradley SimpsonIn the early/mid-1960s, U.S. policymakers saw Sukarno's Indonesia shifting dangerously to the left. The government was aligning with the...
Christopher SoelistyoDec 30, 202215 minReading "Who Lost Russia?" by Peter ConradiSunday Times editor Peter Conradi has written an accessible, engaging and comprehensive account of U.S.-Russian relations from the...
Christopher SoelistyoDec 10, 202220 minReading "The Killing Season" by Geoffrey RobinsonThe anti-leftist purge in Indonesia in 1965-66, which resulted in half a million dead and a million detained without trial, has received...
Christopher SoelistyoNov 11, 202224 minReading "The Economic Weapon" by Nicholas MulderThe Economic Weapon is a fascinating and highly reaable account of the birth of the modern economic sanctions, a tool, short of war yet...