Discover the Best Audio Stories in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

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Title: The Lost Peace: How The West Failed to Prevent a Second Cold War

Author: Richard Sakwa

Narrator: Stewart Crank

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Release date: November 28, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The end of the Cold War was an opportunity—our inability to seize it has led to today's renewed era of great power competition 1989 heralded a unique prospect for an enduring global peace, as harsh ideological divisions and conflicts began to be resolved. Now, three decades on, that peace has been lost. With war in Ukraine and increasing tensions between China, Russia, and the West, great power politics once again dominates the world stage. But could it have been different? Richard Sakwa shows how the years before the first mass invasion of Ukraine represented a hiatus in conflict rather than a lasting accord—and how, since then, we have been in a 'Second Cold War'. Tracing the mistakes on both sides that led to the current crisis, Sakwa considers the resurgence of China and Russia and the disruptions and ambitions of the liberal order that opened up catastrophic new lines of conflict. This is a vital, strongly-argued account of how the world lost its chance at peace, and instead saw the return of war in Europe, global rivalries, and nuclear brinkmanship.

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Title: Circle of Stars: A History of the EU and the People Who Made It

Author: Dermot Hodson

Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 51 minutes

Release date: November 27, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

A compelling new history of the European Union and the people who sought to shape and challenge it—from Maastricht to today The European Union is the most ambitious, and one of the most contentious, international organizations ever created. Decisions made in Brussels shape the lives of over 500 million Europeans, and its laws and policies resonate around the world. But how has the European Union endured over three turbulent decades marred by crises at home and abroad? In this major account, Dermot Hodson traces the development of the European Union from its establishment in 1993 through to Brexit, Covid-19, and the invasion of Ukraine. Hodson shows how the union has been held together not by faceless technocrats but national leaders who stood together in times of turmoil despite a fierce backlash from a new generation of right-wing populists. Circle of Stars offers a rich appraisal of Europe's troubled past and turbulent present—focusing on the people who built the European Union as we know it today.

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Title: [Spanish] - La sombra del dictador: Una memoria política de la vida bajo el régimen de Augusto Pinochet

Author: Heraldo Muñoz

Narrator: Tomás Cebral

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 28 minutes

Release date: November 23, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Un notable retrato, a mitad de camino entre el ensayo y la autobiografía, sobre el Chile de Pinochet. Publicado originalmente en inglés en 2009, este libro que retrata la vida de un militante socialista que el 11 de septiembre se encontraba en la calle con un revolver y dinamita, ofrece nuevas luces sobre la vida política y cotidiana de Chile a partir de 1973 poniendo énfasis, sobre todo, en los múltiples alcances de la figura del dictador: su propio golpe dentro de la junta militar, su rol en el desarrollo económico impulsado por los Chicago Boys, la represión, el intento de asesinato en 1986, la derrota electoral de 1988, su detención en Londres y finalmente su caída en desgracia luego del caso Riggs. Pero sobre todo, el enfoque de esta indagación es el rol de los Estados Unidos como parte activa de esta historia.

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Title: The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin

Author: Aoife Moore

Narrator: Roisin Mcgowan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Release date: November 23, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. Inside the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking power in Ireland Sinn Féin is the most popular political party in both Northern Ireland and the Republic. A movement once synonymous with a paramilitary campaign is on the brink of taking real power through purely democratic means. But if Sinn Féin has mastered the art of electoral politics, it remains strangely opaque. Who really runs the party? How is it funded? And what can we expect of it as a party of government? Aoife Moore, Irish Journalist of the Year in 2021, explores these and other burning questions in The Long Game. Drawing on exclusive interviews with current and former members of Sinn Féin, she builds up a picture of a party undergoing a profound, and still incomplete , transformation. She looks at the key individuals and moments that put the party on its present course, and she explores tensions within the party and the wider republican movement. Packed with revelatory details, The Long Game is a groundbreaking telling of contemporary Ireland's biggest and most elusive political story. * * * 'A powerful portrait of the inside world of an elusive political party ... an important work' - Sunday Independent 'Eye opening and brave ... carefully researched, judicious and packed with revelatory detail' - Fergal Keane 'An explosive read ... important and revelatory' - Business Post ©2023 Aoife Moore (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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Title: [German] - HOW TO STAND UP TO A DICTATOR - Der Kampf um unsere Zukunft (Ungekürzt)

Author: Maria Ressa

Narrator: Kordula Leiße

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Release date: November 22, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Meinungsfreiheit und freier Journalismus sind die schärfsten Waffen zur Verteidigung von Demokratien. Maria Ressa steht wie keine andere für den Kampf um die Wahrheit und gegen Hass und Gewalt. In ihrem Buch beschreibt sie, wie Demokratien durch Autokraten und Diktatoren ausgehöhlt werden - mittels sozialer Medien. Denn Facebook und Google dulden aus Profitgier Propaganda und Fake News. Ressa legt ein Netzwerk der Desinformation offen, das den ganzen Globus umspannt: von Dutertes Drogenkrieg über die Stürmung des Kapitols in Washington, vom Brexit bis zu Cyber-Kriegsführung durch Russland und China. Maria Ressas Recherche ist verstörend - und dringend notwendig. Gewinnerin des FRIEDENSNOBELPREISES 2021 und des UNESCO FREEDOM AWARD 2021

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Title: The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain

Author: Matthew Longo

Narrator: Tom Parks

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Release date: November 21, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists organized a picnic on the border of Hungary and Austria. But this was not an ordinary picnic—it was located on the dangerous militarized frontier known as the Iron Curtain. Tacit permission from the highest state authorities could be revoked at any moment. On wisps of rumor, thousands of East German 'vacationers' packed Hungarian campgrounds, awaiting an opportunity, fearing prison, surveilled by lurking Stasi agents. The Pan-European Picnic set the stage for the greatest border breach in Cold War history: hundreds crossed from the Communist East to the longed-for freedom of the West. Drawing on dozens of original interviews, Matthew Longo tells a gripping and revelatory tale of the unraveling of the Iron Curtain and the birth of a new world order. Just a few months after the Picnic, the Berlin Wall fell, and the freedom for which the activists and refugees had risked imprisonment was suddenly available to everyone. But were they really free? And why, three decades since the Iron Curtain was torn down, have so many sought once again to build walls? Cinematically told, The Picnic recovers a time when it seemed possible for the world to change. With insight and panache, Longo explores the opportunities taken—and the opportunities we failed to take—in that pivotal moment.

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Title: Cold Rivals: The New Era of US-China Strategic Competition

Author: Evan S. Medeiros

Narrator: Tom Parks

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 19 hours 1 minute

Release date: November 21, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Leading authorities analyze growing tensions in US-China relations and what this means for the future The US-China relationship is now defined by 'strategic competition.' In Cold Rivals, a distinguished group of scholars from the United States and China examine the reasons for this deterioration and its implications for world politics. The two countries are now competitors locked in a long-term rivalry, but how volatile this rivalry will become is still to be determined. The book explores not only the historical roots and contemporary foreign policy aspects of this era, but also looks at the economic, military, and technological arenas of US-China strategic competition. In doing so, this volume highlights important differences in US and Chinese perspectives. A final section of the volume explores future scenarios for this relationship from a variety of perspectives, all coming to a sobering conclusion. This policy-relevant book provides a comprehensive overview of US-China strategic competition and reinvigorates thinking about how to avoid reaching a crisis point.

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Title: Side Hustle Safety Net: How Vulnerable Workers Survive Precarious Times

Author: Alexandrea J. Ravenelle

Narrator: Rachel Perry

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Release date: November 21, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The first major study of how the pandemic affected gig workers—a sociological exploration that reads like a novel. This is the story of what the most vulnerable wage earners—gig workers, restaurant staff, early-career creatives, and minimum-wage laborers—do when the economy suddenly collapses. In Side Hustle Safety Net, Alexandrea J. Ravenelle builds on interviews with nearly two hundred gig-based and precarious workers, conducted during the height of the pandemic, to uncover the unique challenges they faced in unprecedented times. This book looks at both the officially unemployed and the 'forgotten jobless'—a digital-era demographic that turned to side hustles—and reveals how they fared. CARES Act assistance allowed some to change careers, start businesses, perhaps transform their lives. However, gig workers and those involved in 'polyemployment' found themselves at the mercy of outdated unemployment systems, vulnerable to scams, and attempting dubious survival strategies. Ultimately, Side Hustle Safety Net argues that the rise of the gig economy, partnered with underemployment and economic instability, has increased worker precarity with disastrous consequences.

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Title: An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy

Author: Christian R. Burset

Narrator: Perry Daniels

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Release date: November 21, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

For many years, Britain tried to impose its own laws on the peoples it conquered, and English common law usually followed the Union Jack. But the common law became less common after Britain emerged from the Seven Years' War as the world's most powerful empire. At that point, imperial policymakers adopted a strategy of legal pluralism: some colonies remained under English law, while others retained much of their previous legal regimes. As legal historian Christian R. Burset argues, determining how much English law a colony received depended on what kind of colony Britain wanted to create. Policymakers thought English law could turn any territory into an anglicized, commercial colony; legal pluralism, in contrast, would ensure a colony's economic and political subordination. Britain's turn to legal pluralism thus reflected the victory of a new vision of empire—authoritarian, extractive, and tolerant—over more assimilationist and egalitarian alternatives. Among other implications, this helps explain American colonists' reverence for the common law: it expressed and preserved their equal status in the empire. This book, the first empire-wide overview of law as an instrument of policy in the eighteenth-century British Empire, offers an imaginative rethinking of the relationship between tolerance and empire.

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Title: Making the Supreme Court: The Politics of Appointments, 1930-2020

Author: Jonathan P. Kastellec, Charles M. Cameron

Narrator: Lee Goettl

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 54 minutes

Release date: November 21, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Appointments to the United States Supreme Court are now central events in American political life. However, this has not always been the case. As late as the middle of the twentieth century, presidents invested little time and effort in finding and vetting nominees. Media coverage was desultory, public opinion was largely non-existent, and the justices often voted independently and erratically. In Making the Supreme Court, Charles M. Cameron and Jonathan P. Kastellec show how the growth of federal judicial power from the 1930s onward inspired a multitude of groups struggling to shape judicial policy. Over time, some groups moved beyond lobbying the Court to changing who sits on it. Other groups formed expressly to influence appointments. These activists and organized groups penetrated the national party system so that after about 1980, presidential candidates increasingly pledged to select and confirm nominees who conformed to specific policy and ideological litmus tests. Once in office, these presidents reshaped the executive selection system to deliver on their promises. As Cameron and Kastellec argue, the result is a new politics aimed squarely at selecting and placing judicial ideologues on the Court. They make the case that this new model gradually transformed how the Court itself operates, turning it into an ideologically driven and polarized branch.