Showing results by publisher "Foreign Affairs" in Politics & Government
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The Clash of Civilizations?
- By: Samuel P. Huntington
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
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World politics is entering a new phase, in which the great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of international conflict will be cultural.
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Simple minded ideology
- By karim on 12-12-16
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The Clash of Civilizations?
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Release date: 09-26-14
- Language: English
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The Calm Before the Storm
- Why Volatility Signals Stability and Vice Versa
- By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Gregory F. Treverton
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 27 mins
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Instead of trying to predict "Black Swan" events such as coups or crises, forecasters should look at how political systems handle disorder. The best indicator of a country's future trajectory is not a lengthy past stability, but recent moderate volatility.
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Fine Taleb, but repeats some themes in other books
- By Philo on 03-23-15
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The Calm Before the Storm
- Why Volatility Signals Stability and Vice Versa
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 27 mins
- Release date: 01-16-15
- Language: English
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Faulty Powers
- Who Started the Ukraine Crisis?
- By: Michael McFaul, John J. Mearsheimer, Stephen Sestanovich
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 47 mins
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Responding to Mearsheimer's controversial essay blaming the West for the Ukraine crisis, McFaul and Sestanovich put the blame back on Putin and his ideological extremism, denying that NATO expansion provoked him. Mearsheimer replies.
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Faulty Powers
- Who Started the Ukraine Crisis?
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 47 mins
- Release date: 11-19-14
- Language: English
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China's Imperial President
- Xi Jinping Tightens His Grip
- By: Elizabeth C. Economy
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 32 mins
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Xi Jinping’s reforms are designed to produce a corruption-free, politically cohesive, and economically powerful one-party state with global reach: a Singapore on steroids. But there is no guarantee the reforms will be as transformative as the Chinese leader hopes.
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Interesting
- By Philo on 03-08-15
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China's Imperial President
- Xi Jinping Tightens His Grip
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 32 mins
- Release date: 11-19-14
- Language: English
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ISIS Goes to Asia
- Extremism in the Middle East Isn't Only Spreading West
- By: Joseph Chinyong Liow
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 13 mins
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In assembling an international coalition to combat ISIS, the United States has looked mostly to the Middle East and Europe, regions that it said face a direct threat from the militant Islamist group. But other parts of the world are just as anxious about ISIS - above all, Southeast Asia.
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ISIS Goes to Asia
- Extremism in the Middle East Isn't Only Spreading West
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 13 mins
- Release date: 10-10-14
- Language: English
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Who Lost Congo?
- The Consequences of Covert Action
- By: Herman J. Cohen, Charles G. Cogan, Stephen R. Weissman
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 18 mins
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Cohen and Cogan portray U.S. involvement in Congo in the 1960s as necessary and relatively benign. Weissman replies.
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Who Lost Congo?
- The Consequences of Covert Action
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 18 mins
- Release date: 12-28-14
- Language: English
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Success Stories
- A Reader's Guide to Strategy
- By: Paul Kennedy
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 23 mins
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Lawrence Freedman’s massive, ambitious new audiobook, Strategy, offers a personal take on an important term, one so overused that it has become almost meaningless.
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Success Stories
- A Reader's Guide to Strategy
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 23 mins
- Release date: 12-29-13
- Language: English
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Opening Indonesia
- A Conversation with Joko Widodo
- By: Joko Widodo
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 15 mins
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Indonesia’s new president talks to Foreign Affairs about his recent victory, his national agenda, and the threat of Islamic extremism.
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Opening Indonesia
- A Conversation with Joko Widodo
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 15 mins
- Release date: 11-19-14
- Language: English
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Promises to Keep
- Crafting Better Development Goals
- By: Bjorn Lomborg
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 22 mins
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The Millennium Development Goals are due to expire at the end of 2015, and debate has turned to what should come next, with hundreds of new targets already proposed. Governments need to focus carefully and decide which goals offer the greatest returns on investment.
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Promises to Keep
- Crafting Better Development Goals
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 22 mins
- Release date: 11-19-14
- Language: English
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More Small Wars
- Counterinsurgency Is Here to Stay
- By: Max Boot
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 36 mins
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Washington doesn’t have the luxury of simply avoiding insurgencies, so it needs to figure out how to fight them better. Drawn from more than a decade of war, here are 10 lessons for doing so.
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More Small Wars
- Counterinsurgency Is Here to Stay
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 36 mins
- Release date: 11-19-14
- Language: English
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Drop Your Weapons
- When and Why Civil Resistance Works
- By: Erica Chenoweth
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 39 mins
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Revolts against authoritarian regimes don’t always succeed - but they're more likely to if they embrace civil resistance rather than violence. Over the last century, nonviolent campaigns have been twice as likely to succeed as violent ones and they increase the chances that toppling a dictatorship will lead to peace and democracy.
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Convincing
- By Carolyn from Santa Cruz on 06-21-17
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Drop Your Weapons
- When and Why Civil Resistance Works
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 39 mins
- Release date: 08-19-14
- Language: English
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The Unraveling
- How to Respond to a Disordered World
- By: Richard N. Haass
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 29 mins
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With US hegemony waning and no successor waiting to pick up the baton, the current international system will likely give way to a larger number of power centers acting with increasing autonomy. The post-Cold War order is unraveling, and it will be missed.
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The Unraveling
- How to Respond to a Disordered World
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 29 mins
- Release date: 11-19-14
- Language: English
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What Really Happened in Iran
- The CIA, the Ouster of Mosaddeq, and the Restoration of the Shah
- By: Ray Takeyh
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 38 mins
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Conventional wisdom about the 1953 coup in Iran rests on the myth that the CIA toppled the country's democratically elected prime minister. In reality, the coup was primarily a domestic Iranian affair, and the CIA's impact was ultimately insignificant.
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Great read
- By Brian on 03-20-16
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What Really Happened in Iran
- The CIA, the Ouster of Mosaddeq, and the Restoration of the Shah
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 38 mins
- Release date: 08-19-14
- Language: English
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Pitchfork Politics
- The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy
- By: Yascha Mounk
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 36 mins
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The Tea Party and its European cousins have emerged from the enduring inability of democratic governments to satisfy their citizens' needs. Today’s populist movements won’t subside until the legitimate grievances driving them have been addressed.
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Pitchfork Politics
- The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 36 mins
- Release date: 09-10-14
- Language: English
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Misrule of the Few
- How the Oligarchs Ruined Greece
- By: Pavlos Eleftheriadis
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 21 mins
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Since the early 1990s, a handful of oligarchs has dominated Greece’s economy and politics. So long as these elites have a vested interest in keeping things as they are, the country will never fully find its way out of crisis.
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Misrule of the Few
- How the Oligarchs Ruined Greece
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 21 mins
- Release date: 11-19-14
- Language: English
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An Army to Defeat Assad
- How to Turn Syria's Opposition into a Real Fighting Force
- By: Kenneth M. Pollack
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 38 mins
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Washington’s current efforts to resolve the conflict in Syria will not break the stalemate. The only way to restore peace without committing U.S. troops is to build a new Syrian army capable of defeating both the Assad regime and the extremists.
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An Army to Defeat Assad
- How to Turn Syria's Opposition into a Real Fighting Force
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 38 mins
- Release date: 12-29-13
- Language: English
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The G-Word
- The Armenian Massacre and the Politics of Genocide
- By: Thomas de Waal
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 35 mins
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A century on, discussions about the Ottoman massacre of Armenians are still dominated by questions surrounding the use of one fraught and divisive word: "Genocide". Washington should use the term, but also recognize its many limitations.
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The G-Word
- The Armenian Massacre and the Politics of Genocide
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 35 mins
- Release date: 01-16-15
- Language: English
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Darkness Invisible
- The Hidden Global Costs of Mental Illness
- By: Thomas R. Insel, E. Heyman, Pamela Y. Collins
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 23 mins
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Far from being a "First World problem", mental illness is a global scourge that affects people of all incomes and backgrounds. By 2030, mental disorders will cost the global economy around $6 trillion a year - more than heart disease.
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A Manifesto to Reduce Mental Illness
- By Daniel on 08-22-18
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Darkness Invisible
- The Hidden Global Costs of Mental Illness
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 23 mins
- Release date: 01-16-15
- Language: English
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Radical Turks
- Why Turkish Citizens Are Joining ISIS
- By: Gunes Murat Tezcur, Sabir Ciftci
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 11 mins
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The past few weeks have seen a wave of Muslims from all around the world joining the ranks of ISIS. Although most of the attention has been on those coming from the United States and Europe, the bulk of foreign fighters has actually come from places like Turkey, from which the flow of jihadists is particularly puzzling.
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Radical Turks
- Why Turkish Citizens Are Joining ISIS
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 11 mins
- Release date: 12-08-14
- Language: English
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Ukraine’s Own Worst Enemy
- Why Corruption Is More Dangerous than Putin
- By: Tom Keatinge
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 10 mins
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An end to Russia’s intrusions into Ukraine would bring some measure of respite to Kiev. However, that alone will not be enough to place the country on a truly new path. For that, Ukraine must overcome its self-inflicted problems, in particular rampant and pervasive corruption.
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Ukraine’s Own Worst Enemy
- Why Corruption Is More Dangerous than Putin
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 10 mins
- Release date: 08-14-14
- Language: English
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