Great Power Politics

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    • By: John J. Mearsheimer
    • Narrated by: Mark Ashby
    • Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 338 ratings
    • A decade after the cold war ended, policy makers and academics foresaw a new era of peace and prosperity, an era in which democracy and open trade would herald the "end of history."....

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    • How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition
    • By: Jeffrey Ding
    • Narrated by: Rick Barr
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 07-22-25
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • When scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great powers, they draw on theories that center on the moment of innovation—the eureka moment that sparks astonishing technological feats.

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    • America and China in Southeast Asia
    • By: David Shambaugh
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • The United States and China are engaged in a broad-gauged and global competition for power. While this competition ranges across the entire world, it is centered in Asia. In this book, David Shambaugh focuses on the critical sub-region of Southeast Asia....

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    • What the Cold War Teaches Us About Great-Power Rivalry Today
    • By: Hal Brands
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • In this innovative and illuminating book, Hal Brands, a leading historian and former Pentagon adviser, argues that America should look to the history of the Cold War for lessons in how to succeed in great-power rivalry today....

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    • Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
    • By: Max Blumenthal
    • Narrated by: Richard Powers
    • Length: 22 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine, painting a startling portrait of Israeli society under the siege of increasingly authoritarian politics....

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    • Russia, China, and the Next World War
    • By: Jim Sciutto
    • Narrated by: Jim Sciutto
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • The essential new book by CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto, reporting from the front lines of political hotspots and warzones across the globe....

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    • Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower
    • By: Michael Mandelbaum
    • Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
    • Length: 18 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy, Michael Mandelbaum offers a new framework for understanding the evolution of the foreign policy of the United States....

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    • Governor of the Netherlands and Early 16th-Century Europe's Greatest Diplomat
    • By: Rozsa Gaston
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • For fans of ALISON WEIR and PHILIPPA GREGORY ◆ FIRST PLACE WINNER - 2023 CHAUCER Book Awards - Early Historical Fiction ◆ WINNER - 2023 READERS...

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    • How China Became a Great Power
    • By: Oriana Skylar Mastro
    • Narrated by: Robin McAlpine
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-25
    • Language: English
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    • Oriana Skylar Mastro offers a powerful new explanation of China's rise that draws from the business world to show that China is not simply copying established great powers, but exploiting geopolitical opportunities around the world that those other powers had ignored.

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    • How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy
    • By: Van Jackson, Michael Brenes
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-25
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Van Jackson and Michael Brenes examines how the US policy of competition with China is detrimental to democracy, peace, and prosperity—and how a saner approach is possible.

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    • Revitalizing U.S. Foreign Policy to Meet the Challenges of Strategic Competition
    • By: Ali Wyne
    • Narrated by: Tristan Morris
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Ali Wyne offers the first detailed critique of great-power competition as a foreign policy framework, warning that it could render the United States defensive and reactive....

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    • Power & Politics of King John’s Daughter
    • By: Danna R. Messer
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The history of women in medieval Wales before the English conquest of 1282 is one largely shrouded in mystery. This misfortune touches even the most well-known royal woman of the time, Joan of England, the wife of Llywelyn the Great of Gwynedd....

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    • How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers
    • By: Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 20 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • This book by military strategist Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr., is the definitive take on the race for military dominance in the twenty-first century....

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    • The Life and Times of Brzezinski, America's Great Power Prophet
    • By: Edward Luce
    • Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
    • Length: 23 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • An intimate and masterful biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski—President Carter’s national security advisor and one of America’s leading geopolitical thinkers—from one of the finest columnists and political writers at work today.

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    • The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones
    • By: Thomas Asbridge
    • Narrated by: Christopher Tester
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 09-09-25
    • Language: English
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    • Renowned scholar Thomas Asbridge brings to life medieval England’s most celebrated knight, William Marshal—providing an unprecedented and intimate view of this age and the legendary warrior class that shaped it.

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    • American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict
    • By: Elbridge A. Colby
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 113 ratings
    • Why and how America's defense strategy must change in light of China's power and ambition....

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    • The New Great Game for Global Dominance
    • By: Robert Winder
    • Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In Bloody Foreigners and The Last Wolf, Robert Winder explored the way Britain was shaped first by migration and then by hidden geographical factors....

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    • AI, Power, and Our Future
    • By: Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar - contributor
    • Narrated by: Mustafa Suleyman
    • Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,106 ratings
    • We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organize your life, operate your business, and run core government services.

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    • The Power of Words
    • By: Sir Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert
    • Narrated by: Fraser Wilson
    • Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • Winston Churchill understood and wielded the power of words throughout his six decades in the public eye....

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    • Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich
    • By: Christopher Clark
    • Narrated by: Grant Cartwright
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-25
    • Language: English
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    • This book presents new perspectives on how the exercise of power is shaped by different notions of time. Acclaimed historian Christopher Clark draws on four key figures from German history—Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Prussia, Frederick the Great, Otto von Bismarck, and Adolf Hitler.

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