Christopher Soelistyo
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,...
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Christopher Soelistyo
Oct 30, 202125 min read
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, 202139 min read
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
Aug 2, 20217 min read
The US Exit from Afghanistan
On April 14th, US President Joe Biden announced that US forces would withdraw from Afghanistan by September 11th (recently pushed forward...
Christopher Soelistyo
Jul 12, 20215 min read
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
Jun 29, 20219 min read
Russia's Energy Relationship with the European Union
Relations between Russia and the European Union have long been uneasy. Geopolitics continues to be a source of tension, and the anxieties...
Christopher Soelistyo
Jun 23, 20216 min read
Tehran's Chinese Backstop
On June 19th, Iran's presidential election was won by a man widely described in Western media as a "hardliner" and "ultra-conservative"....
Christopher Soelistyo
Jun 15, 20215 min read
Kuwait: The Trials of an Oil Exporter
On June 13th, the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) announced the publication of its annual Economic Report, which revealed, among other...
Christopher Soelistyo
Jun 14, 20215 min read
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 13, 20215 min read
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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