Christopher Soelistyo
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...
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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....
Christopher Soelistyo
- Jul 7, 2022
- 36 min
Reading "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine" by Rashid Khalidi
This book by Palestinian-American historian Rashid Khalidi is an attempt to cast the entirety of Zionist and Israeli history as a...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Jun 18, 2022
- 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
- Apr 21, 2022
- 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 12, 2022
- 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 7, 2022
- 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 5, 2022
- 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
- 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...
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