Western Democracies

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    • The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance
    • By: Elizabeth F. Thompson
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when representative democracy became a political option for Arabs - and how the West denied the opportunity....

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    • Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
    • By: Cornel West
    • Narrated by: Cornel West
    • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 307 ratings
    • Democracy Matters is Cornel West's bold and powerful critique of the troubling deterioration of democracy in America in this threatening post-9/11 age of terrorist rage....

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    • The Western Liberal Order from Foundation to Fracture
    • By: Peter Trubowitz, Brian Burgoon
    • Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
    • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
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    • In Geopolitics and Democracy, Peter Trubowitz and Brian Burgoon provide a powerful new explanation for the rise of anti-globalism in the West.

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    • A Rediscovery
    • By: Yoram Hazony
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
    • Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 126 ratings
    • The award-winning political theorist Yoram Hazony argues that the best hope for Western democracy is a return to the empiricist, religious, and nationalist traditions of America and Britain....

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    • By: Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,910 ratings
    • Democracies can die with a coup d'état - or they can die slowly. This happens most deceptively when in piecemeal fashion, with the election of an authoritarian leader, the abuse of governmental power and the complete repression of opposition....

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    • How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West
    • By: Malcolm Nance, Rob Reiner - foreword
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,557 ratings
    • Insightful and shocking, The Plot to Destroy Democracy puts a professional spy lens on Putin's plot and unravels it play-by-play. In the end, Malcolm Nance provides a better understanding of why Putin's efforts are a serious threat to our national security and global alliances....

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    • The History and Legacy of Representative Governments in the West from the Ancient World to Today
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Jim Johnston
    • Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-20
    • Language: English
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    • In today’s modern world every political regime, even the most authoritarian or repressive, describes itself as democracy or a Democratic People’s Republic. It is also generally accepted that democracy, as a political ideology, began in Greece, specifically in Athens....

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    • How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy
    • By: Jonah Goldberg
    • Narrated by: Jonah Goldberg
    • Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,399 ratings
    • An urgent argument that America and other democracies are in peril because they have lost the will to defend the values and institutions that sustain freedom and prosperity....

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    • Islam, Democracy, and the West
    • By: Benazir Bhutto
    • Narrated by: Rita Wolf
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • In Reconciliation, Bhutto recounts in gripping detail her final months in Pakistan and offers a bold new agenda for how to stem the tide of Islamic radicalism....

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    • The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity
    • By: Rodney Stark
    • Narrated by: Kevin Foley
    • Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 547 ratings
    • How the West Won demonstrates the primacy of uniquely Western ideas-among them the belief in free will, the commitment to the pursuit of knowledge...

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    • By: Edward Luce
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 273 ratings
    • In The Retreat of Western Liberalism, Luce makes a larger statement about the weakening of western hegemony and the crisis of liberal democracy....

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    • Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy
    • By: Ivan Krastev, Stephen Holmes
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance? In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformation of Eastern European countries gave rise to a bitter repudiation of liberalism itself....

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    • A Global Biography
    • By: Brendan Simms
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 29 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • A powerfully argued and utterly definitive account of a murderous tyrant we thought we understood, Hitler is essential listening for anyone seeking to understand the origins and outcomes of the Second World War....

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    • By: David Runciman
    • Narrated by: David Runciman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • How will democracy end? And what will replace it? A preeminent political scientist examines the past, present, and future of an endangered political philosophy....

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    • How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies
    • By: Mark Hollingsworth
    • Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Agents of Influence reveals the secret history of an intelligence agency gone out of control, accountable to no one but itself and intent on subverting Western politics on a near-inconceivable scale....

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    • The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy
    • By: Sasha Polakow-Suransky
    • Narrated by: Jamie Renell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In this deeply reported account, Sasha Polakow-Suransky provides a front-row seat to the anger, desperation, and dissent that are driving some voters into the arms of the far right ....

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    • History of Greece: From the Cradle of Western Civilization to Myths, Legends, Democracy and Modern Day Greek History
    • By: Nicole James
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • Read this for free with your Kindle Unlimited Membership Greece is a colorful country and has always been the target of many tourists looking to ...

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    • By: Aldo Schiavone, Jeremy Carden - translator
    • Narrated by: William Sarris
    • Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
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    • How much equality does democracy need to survive? Thinkers have wrestled with that question for millennia. Aldo Schiavone guides us through historical thickets, from the first democracy to the present day, seeking solutions to the enduring tension between democracy and inequality....

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    • Rome, America and the Future of the West
    • By: John Rapley, Peter Heather
    • Narrated by: Sid Sagar
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-23
    • Language: English
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    • Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in freefall....

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