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, 202215 min read
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, 202220 min read
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, 202224 min read
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, 202218 min read
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, 202236 min read
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, 202239 min read
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, 202221 min read
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, 202227 min read
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, 202254 min read
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,...
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