International Political History

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    • The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
    • By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,412 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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    • America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
    • By: Stephen Kinzer
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 628 ratings
    • A fast-paced narrative history of the coups, revolutions, and invasions by which the United States has toppled 14 foreign governments, not always to its own benefit....

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    • Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry that Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
    • By: Kim Ghattas
    • Narrated by: Kim Ghattas, Nan McNamara
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 452 ratings
    • Kim Ghattas delivers a gripping account of the largely unexplored story of the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran, born from the sparks of the 1979 Iranian revolution and fueled by American policy....

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    • What Happened to Liberal Politics
    • By: Timothy Shenk
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Politics today doesn’t look much like it did fifty years ago. Electorates that were once divided by economics—with blue-collar workers supporting leftwing parties while the wealthy trended right—are now more likely to split along cultural lines.

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    • An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
    • By: Stephen Kinzer
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard, Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,546 ratings
    • Half a century ago, the United States overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, whose "crime" was nationalizing the country's oil industry....

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    • Three Thousand Years of War and Peace (A Pelican Book)
    • By: Jonathan Holslag
    • Narrated by: Roy McMillan
    • Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Political History of the World by Jonathan Holslag, read by Roy McMillan. In 3,000 years of history, China has spent at least 11 centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 percent of its lifetime....

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    • Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?
    • By: Graham Allison
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,082 ratings
    • When Athens went to war with Sparta some 2,500 years ago, the Greek historian Thucydides identified one simple cause: A rising power threatened to displace a ruling one....

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    • By: Henry Kissinger
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 37 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 306 ratings
    • A brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Secretary of State, including his stunning reopening of relations with China. The seminal work on foreign policy and the art of diplomacy....

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    • A World History
    • By: Odd Arne Westad
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 22 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 419 ratings
    • In The Cold War, Odd Arne Westad offers a new perspective on a century when a superpower rivalry and an ideological war transformed every corner of our globe....

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    • A History
    • By: Lawrence Freedman
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 32 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,006 ratings
    • In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking....

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    • An American Abroad in a Post-American World
    • By: Suzy Hansen
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 203 ratings
    • In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the US-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist....

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    • What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
    • By: Robert D. Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 746 ratings
    • A brilliant rebuttal to thinkers who suggest that globalism will trump geography, this indispensable work shows how timeless truths and natural facts can help prevent this century's looming cataclysms....

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    • The Limits of Progressive Politics
    • By: Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • Scholar and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill and Israel-Palestine expert Mitchell Plitnick spotlight how holding fast to one-sided and unwaveringly pro-Israel policies reflects the truth-bending grip of authoritarianism on both Israel and the United States....

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    • A Story of War
    • By: Peter Maass
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 235 ratings
    • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Peter Maass went to the Balkans as a reporter at the height of the nightmarish war there. Love Thy Neighbor gives us a vision of a late-20th-century hell that is also a scathing inquiry into the worst extremes of human nature....

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    • The Weaponization of Social Media
    • By: P. W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 955 ratings
    • Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the Internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the Internet....

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    • By: Daniel Kurtz-Phelan
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 417 ratings
    • A spellbinding narrative of the high-stakes mission that changed the course of America, China, and global politics - and a rich portrait of the towering, complex figure who carried it out....

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    • John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century
    • By: Paul Kengor
    • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
    • Length: 23 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 317 ratings
    • Even as historians credit Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II with the end of the Cold War, they have failed to recognize the depth of the bond that developed between the two....

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    • The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War
    • By: Micah Goodman, Eylon Levy - translator
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • From best-selling Israeli author Micah Goodman comes Catch-72, a controversial examination of the internal Israeli debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....

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    • Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine
    • By: Nathan Thrall
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-16-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Scattered over the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea lie the remnants of failed peace proposals, international summits, secret negotiations, UN resolutions....

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    • A Definitive History
    • By: Seth Hettena
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 482 ratings
    • Is the 45th president of the United States under the control of a foreign power? Award-winning Associated Press reporter Seth Hettena untangles the story of Donald Trump's long involvement with Russia in damning detail - including new reporting never before published....

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