International Political History

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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 334 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....

    Regular price: $30.09

    • 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 1,108 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 15 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....

    Regular price: $17.43

    • 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 4,628 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

    Regular price: $21.60

    • 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 1,578 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
    • By: Erica Chenoweth, Maria J. Stephan
    • Narrated by: Traci Odom
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • From 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. Authors Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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 637 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....

    Regular price: $18.91

    • The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
    • By: Quinn Slobodian
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • America and China, 1776 to the Present
    • By: John Pomfret
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 30 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 193 ratings
    • Our relationship with China remains one of the most complex and rapidly evolving and is perhaps one of the most important to our nation's future....

    Regular price: $30.09

    • 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 766 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....

    Regular price: $18.05

    • 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 333 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....

    Regular price: $21.92

    • 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 174 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....

    Regular price: $25.76

    • 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 1,031 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....

    Regular price: $39.95

    • Facing History
    • By: Ezra F. Vogel
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back 1,500 years. But today, their relationship is strained. Ezra Vogel's China and Japan examines key turning points in Sino-Japanese history....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • 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 431 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....

    Regular price: $30.09

    • 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 247 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 214 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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 471 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran
    • By: David Crist
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 25 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 216 ratings
    • The dramatic secret history of the undeclared, ongoing war between the US and Iran....

    Regular price: $20.97

    • FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943
    • By: Nigel Hamilton
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Series: FDR at War, Book 2
    • Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 169 ratings
    • Nigel Hamilton tells the astonishing story of FDR's yearlong defining battle with Churchill as the war raged in Africa and Italy....

    Regular price: $21.49

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