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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
- Written by: Francis Fukuyama
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 22 hrs and 34 mins
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Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could keep the peace and uniform laws that applied to all citizens. Some went on to create governments that were accountable to their constituents. We take these institutions for granted, but they are absent or are unable to perform in many of today’s developing countries—with often disastrous consequences for the rest of the world.
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- By Amit K Thakur on 11-07-20
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 22 hrs and 34 mins
- Release Date: 27-12-11
- Language: English
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Political Order and Political Decay
- From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
- Written by: Francis Fukuyama
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 24 hrs and 1 min
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Fukuyama examines the effects of corruption on governance, and why some societies have been successful at rooting it out. He explores the different legacies of colonialism in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and offers a clear-eyed account of why some regions have thrived and developed more quickly than others. And he boldly reckons with the future of democracy in the face of a rising global middle class and entrenched political paralysis in the West.
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Political Order and Political Decay
- From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 24 hrs and 1 min
- Release Date: 30-09-14
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the East
- How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
- Written by: Yasheng Huang PhD
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
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Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the EAST—exams, autocracy, stability, and technology—from ancient times through the present. Beginning with the Sui dynasty's introduction of the civil service exam, known as Keju, in 587 CE—and continuing through the personnel management system used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—Chinese autocracies have developed exceptional tools for homogenizing ideas, norms, and practices. But this uniformity came with a huge downside: stifled creativity.
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The Rise and Fall of the East
- How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
- Release Date: 19-12-23
- Language: English
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The Revenge of Power
- How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century
- Written by: Moisés Naím
- Narrated by: Larry Herron
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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Moisés Naím turns to the trends, conditions, and behaviors that are contributing to the concentration of power, and to the clash between those forces that weaken power and those that strengthen it. He concentrates on the three “P”s - populism, polarization, and post-truths. All of which are as old as time, but are combined by today’s autocrats to undermine democratic life in new and frightening ways. Power has not changed. But the way people go about gaining it and using it has been transformed.
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The Revenge of Power
- How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century
- Narrated by: Larry Herron
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Release Date: 22-02-22
- Language: English
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Introduction to Politics, 4th Edition
- Written by: Robert Garner, Peter Ferdinand, Stephanie Lawson
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 31 hrs and 40 mins
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Combining theory, comparative politics, and international relations, Introduction to Politics, Fourth Edition provides the most comprehensive introduction to the subject for first-year undergraduate students, with the most global perspective. The new edition has been fully updated with additional case studies and examples to help students to understand how key theories and principles apply in the context of real-world events. New to the fourth edition is a chapter on "Non-Western Approaches", which helps students to bring more diverse perspectives to their study of politics.
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Introduction to Politics, 4th Edition
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 31 hrs and 40 mins
- Release Date: 15-06-21
- Language: English
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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- Written by: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
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Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
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Absolute waste of time
- By Ram Mohan N on 14-02-21
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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Release Date: 20-03-12
- Language: English
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The Verdict: Decoding India's Elections
- Written by: Prannoy Roy, Dorab R. Sopariwala
- Narrated by: Sumit Kaul
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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Published on the eve of India's next general elections, The Verdict uses rigorous psephology, original research, and as-yet-undisclosed facts to talk about the entire span of India's electoral history from the first elections in 1952. Crucially, for 2019, it provides pointers to look out for, to see if the incumbent government will win or lose.
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Good but dry
- By Amit S on 06-04-20
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The Verdict: Decoding India's Elections
- Narrated by: Sumit Kaul
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Release Date: 25-11-19
- Language: English
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The Dictator's Handbook
- Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
- Written by: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith’s canonical book on political science turned conventional wisdom on its head. They started from a single assertion: leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don’t care about the “national interest”—or even their subjects—unless they must. Newly updated to reflect the global rise of authoritarianism, this clever and accessible book illustrates how leaders amass and retain power. As Bueno de Mesquita and Smith show, democracy is essentially just a convenient fiction.-
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Very good explanation
- By Amazon Customer on 23-09-23
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The Dictator's Handbook
- Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
- Release Date: 21-06-22
- Language: English
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The New Silk Roads
- The Present and Future of the World
- Written by: Peter Frankopan
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
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'All roads used to lead to Rome. Today, they lead to Beijing.' When The Silk Roads was published in 2015, it became an instant classic. A major reassessment of world history, it compelled us to look at the past from a different perspective. The New Silk Roads brings this story up to date, addressing the present and future of a world that is changing dramatically. Following the Silk Roads eastwards, from Europe through to China, by way of Russia and the Middle East, The New Silk Roads provides a timely reminder that we live in a world that is profoundly interconnected.
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too many facts, not enough storytelling
- By Amazon Customer on 17-12-18
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The New Silk Roads
- The Present and Future of the World
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Release Date: 15-11-18
- Language: English
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Political Tribes
- Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
- Written by: Amy Chua
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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From the author of the international best seller Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, a bracing and original look at the tension between our democratic egalitarian political ideals and our recalcitrant biology. Human beings are tribal. We possess a fundamental desire to belong to groups, teams, clubs, a tribe - something larger than ourselves. Political Tribes explores the phenomenon of human groupishness: how identities are shaped and formed by belonging to a group.
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Political Tribes
- Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release Date: 22-02-18
- Language: English
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Why Politics Fails
- The Five Traps of the Modern World and How to Escape Them
- Written by: Ben Ansell
- Narrated by: Ben Ansell
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
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Everybody wants breathable air, a healthy population, civil politics. We want a peaceful world, a stable economy. The fundamental point of politics is to deliver them. And yet clearly our political systems are failing. The answer is that politics we aspire to - democracy, equality, solidarity, security and prosperity - is also the politics that creates traps for us. But there is hope. Ansell explains the cul-de-sac of modern politics - and how we can make it better.
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Why Politics Fails
- The Five Traps of the Modern World and How to Escape Them
- Narrated by: Ben Ansell
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Release Date: 30-03-23
- Language: English
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The Politics Book
- Big Ideas Simply Explained
- Written by: DK
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
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The Politics Book makes government and politics easy to understand by explaining the big ideas simply. The key events in political history are outlined from the origins of political thinking by Confucius and Aristotle to modern-day activists such as Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela. This audiobook breaks down their important concepts into bite-size chunks to make the subject accessible to students of politics and anyone with an interest in how government works.
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The Politics Book
- Big Ideas Simply Explained
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker
- Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
- Release Date: 05-12-19
- Language: English
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How to Be a Dictator
- The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
- Written by: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: Jack Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. A tyrant who can compel his own people to acclaim him will last longer. The paradox of the modern dictator is that he must create the illusion of popular support. Throughout the 20th century, hundreds of millions of people were condemned to enthusiasm, obliged to hail their leaders even as they were herded down the road to serfdom.
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How to Be a Dictator
- The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
- Narrated by: Jack Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release Date: 16-10-19
- Language: English
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Washington Bullets
- A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations
- Written by: Vijay Prashad
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
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Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent stories, full of detail about US imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point. It is a book that could easily have been a song of despair - a lament of lost causes; it is, after all, a roll call of butchers and assassins; of plots against people's movements and governments; of the assassinations of socialists, Marxists, communists all over the Third World by the country where liberty is a statue.
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Prashad lays bares the crimes of the US
- By Amazon Customer on 08-12-21
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Washington Bullets
- A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Release Date: 14-09-21
- Language: English
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The Future of Capitalism
- Written by: Paul Collier
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of Britain and other Western societies: thriving cities versus the provinces, the highly skilled elite versus the less educated, wealthy versus developing countries. As these divides deepen, we have lost the sense of ethical obligation to others that was crucial to the rise of post-war social democracy. So far these rifts have been answered only by the revivalist ideologies of populism and socialism, leading to the seismic upheavals of Trump, Brexit and the return of the far right in Germany.
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I love the approach of reciprocal obligation
- By Madhanmohan S on 29-07-19
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The Future of Capitalism
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Release Date: 04-10-18
- Language: English
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A Fine Mess
- A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System
- Written by: T.R. Reid
- Narrated by: T.R. Reid
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
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The US tax code is a total write-off. Overstuffed with loopholes and special interest provisions, it works for no one - except tax lawyers, accountants, and corporations, that is - certainly not me and you. Not for the first time, we have to tear it up and start over. That happened in 1922, and again in 1954, and again in 1986. There's a pattern here; we reach this point every 32 years. Which means the next complete re-write of the tax code is due in 2018. Can we write a new tax code that is fair and simple? In fact, we can.
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Insightful
- By JasrotiaN on 30-03-24
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A Fine Mess
- A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System
- Narrated by: T.R. Reid
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Release Date: 04-04-17
- Language: English
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Of Paradise and Power
- America and Europe in the New World Order
- Written by: Robert Kagan
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
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When historians want to find out about the ideas that motivated American foreign policy in the early years of the twenty-first century, they would do well to read this book. Robert Kagan has formally set out a case for unilateralism on the part of the United States, as opposed to the multilateralism now characteristic of Europe. Kagan believes that the United States can disregard a weak Europe, and have a free hand in pursuing its global interests.
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Of Paradise and Power
- America and Europe in the New World Order
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Release Date: 10-10-03
- Language: English
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Taliban, Third Edition
- The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and Beyond
- Written by: Ahmed Rashid
- Narrated by: Youssif Kamal
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
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Ahmed Rashid, called “Pakistan’s best and bravest reporter” by Christopher Hitchens, brings the shadowy world of the Taliban and its impact on Afghanistan and the Middle East and Central Asia into sharp focus in this modern classic. Rashid offers an authoritative account of the Taliban’s rise to power, its role in oil and gas company decisions, and the effects of changing American attitudes toward the Taliban. He also describes the new face of Islamic fundamentalism and explains why Afghanistan has become the world center for international terrorism.
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Taliban, Third Edition
- The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and Beyond
- Narrated by: Youssif Kamal
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Release Date: 08-03-22
- Language: English
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The Real North Korea
- Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
- Written by: Andrei Lankov
- Narrated by: Steven Roy Grimsley
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career, using his fluency in Korean and personal contacts to build a rich, nuanced understanding. In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state.
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The Real North Korea
- Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
- Narrated by: Steven Roy Grimsley
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release Date: 09-05-14
- Language: English
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The Arab Winter
- A Tragedy
- Written by: Noah Feldman
- Narrated by: Noah Feldman
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
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The Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the Middle East. Yet everywhere except Tunisia it led to either renewed dictatorship, civil war, extremist terror, or all three. In The Arab Winter, Noah Feldman argues that the Arab Spring was nevertheless not an unmitigated failure, much less an inevitable one. Rather, it was a noble, tragic series of events in which, for the first time in recent Middle Eastern history, Arabic-speaking peoples took free, collective political action as they sought to achieve self-determination.
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The Arab Winter
- A Tragedy
- Narrated by: Noah Feldman
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Release Date: 12-05-20
- Language: English
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