Global Politics Audiobooks | Politics

Historic Supreme Court cases that impact modern-day issues of American liberty, in a short, accessible volume as part of the new Penguin Liberty series. A Penguin Classic Penguin Liberty is a curated series of historical, political and legal classic texts relevant to constitutional rights. This collection will include canonical and major cases that are often taught and that are not featured in our Civic Classics Supreme Court Decisions volume. Each Penguin Liberty volume will feature a series introduction and volume introduction by series editor Corey Brettschneider.

Corey Brettschneider (Author), Patty Nieman (Narrator)

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Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians

Christians are the world's most widely persecuted religious group, according to studies by the Pew Research Center, Newsweek, and the Economist, among others. A woman is caught with a Bible and publicly shot to death. An elderly priest is abducted and never seen again. Three buses full of students and teachers are struck by roadside bombs. These are not casualties of a war. These are Christian believers being persecuted for their faith in the twenty-first century. Many Americans do not understand that Christians today are victims in many parts of the world. Even many Western Christians, who worship and pray without fear of violent repercussions, are unaware that so many followers of Christ live under governments and among people who are often openly hostile to their faith. They think martyrdom became a rarity long ago. Persecuted soundly refutes these assumptions. This book offers a glimpse at the modern-day life of Christians worldwide, recounting the ongoing attacks that rarely make international headlines. As Western Christians pray for the future of Christ's church, it is vital that they understand a large part of the world's Christian believers live in danger. Persecuted gives documented accounts of the persecution of Christians in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and former Soviet nations. It contains vivid stories of men and women who suffer abuse because of their faith in Jesus Christ, and tells of their perseverance and courage.. Persecuted is far more than a thorough and moving study of this global pattern of violence-it is a cry for freedom and a call to action.

Lela Gilbert, Nina Shea, Paul Marshall (Author), Milton Bagby (Narrator)

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[German] - Bist du das Eigentum einer Staatssekte?

Dawid Snowden (Author), Dawid Snowden (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - El código del capital

El capitalismo está codificado por abogados. Esta es la conclusión a la que ha llegado la jurista Katharina Pistor. El empresario multimillonario y la gran fábrica como imagen del capitalismo es posible que esté desfasada. Hoy en día la producción industrial ha perdido su hegemonía frente al sector financiero, un sector que conoce bien las reglas del juego, porque muchas de ellas las ha fomentado. La ley está configurada para crear desigualdad. Las grandes corporaciones y las clases más acomodadas establecen condiciones favorables para los más poderosos de forma contractual. El Estado protege el código del libre mercado, un código que en un futuro cercano podría ser sustituido por algoritmos. Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. - Katharina Pistor (1963) es una jurista alemana. Es profesora de Derecho en la Facultad de Derecho de Columbia, en Nueva York, y directora del Law Schoolʼs Center on Global Legal Transformation. Se ha especializado en el estudio de las diferentes legislaciones a propósito de la creación de la riqueza y las desigualdades económicas.

Katharina Pistor (Author), Marta Barriuso (Narrator)

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The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism

"Keyu Jin is a brilliant thinker." -Tony Blair, former prime minster of the United Kingdom A myth-dispelling, comprehensive guide to the Chinese economy and its path to ascendancy. China's economy has been booming for decades now. A formidable and emerging power on the world stage, the China that most Americans picture is only a rough sketch, based on American news coverage, policy, and ways of understanding. Enter Keyu Jin: a world-renowned economist who was born in China, educated in the U.S., and is now a tenured professor at the London School of Economics. A person fluent in both Eastern and Western cultures, and a voice of the new generation of Chinese who represent a radical break from the past, Jin is uniquely poised to explain how China became the most successful economic story of our time, as it has shifted from primarily state-owned enterprise to an economy that is thriving in entrepreneurship, and participation in the global economy. China's economic realm is colorful and lively, filled with paradoxes and conundrums, and Jin believes that by understanding the Chinese model, the people, the culture and history in its true perspective, one can reconcile what may appear to be contradictions to the Western eye. What follows is an illuminating account of a burgeoning world power, its past, and its potential future. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of charts, graphs, and other key visual aids from the book.

Keyu Jin (Author), Jenapher Zheng (Narrator)

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Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise

For three decades after Mao's death in 1976, China's leaders adopted a restrained approach to foreign policy. To facilitate the country's inexorable economic ascendance, and to prevent a backlash, they reassured the outside world of China's peaceful intentions. Then, as Susan Shirk shows, something changed. China went from fragile superpower to global heavyweight. Combining her decades of research and experience, Shirk, one of the world's most respected experts on Chinese politics, argues that we are now fully embroiled in a new cold war. As she shows, the shift toward confrontation began in the mid-2000s under the mild-mannered Hu Jintao. When Xi Jinping took power in 2012, he capitalized on widespread official corruption and open splits in the leadership to make the case for more concentrated power at the top. Those who implement Xi's directives compete to outdo one another, provoking an even greater global backlash and stoking jingoism within China on a scale not seen since the Cultural Revolution. Here is a devastatingly lucid portrait of China today. Understanding the domestic roots of China's actions will enable us to avoid the mistakes that could lead to war.

Susan L. Shirk (Author), Teri Schnaubelt (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Civilización: Occidente y el resto

La versión definitiva de la historia global contemporánea. Un viajero que recorriera el mundo en 1411 hubiera quedado deslumbrado por las imponentes civilizaciones orientales. La Ciudad Prohibida estaba en plena construcción en la China de los Ming; en Oriente Próximo, los otomanos acechaban Constantinopla. Por el contrario, los belicosos países de Europa occidental, Inglaterra, Escocia, Castilla, Aragón, Francia y Portugal, eran pobres y atrasados, debilitados por las epidemias, las pésimas condiciones sanitarias y las guerras incesantes. En cuanto a Norteamérica, en el siglo XV era un espacio poco habitado y anárquico en comparación con los impresionantes y organizados imperios de los incas y los aztecas. La idea de que Occidente pudiera llegar a dominar al resto del mundo durante el siguiente medio milenio le hubiera parecido ilusoria. Y, sin embargo, eso fue lo que ocurrió. ¿Qué permitió a la civilización de Europa occidental dominar a los aparentemente superiores imperios orientales? Según Niall Ferguson, Occidente logró desarrollar seis poderosos instrumentos, la competencia, la ciencia, el imperio de la ley, la medicina, la sociedad de consumo y la ética del trabajo. La cuestión fundamental hoy día es si Occidente ha perdido el monopolio de estos seis resortes del poder global. Para averiguarlo, Civilización nos lleva a un extraordinario viaje alrededor del mundo, del Gran Canal en Nankín al palacio de Topkapi en Estambul, del Machu Picchu en los Andes a la isla del Tiburón en Namibia; de las altas torres de Praga a las iglesias secretas de Wenzhou. Es la historia de los barcos de vela, los misiles, los títulos de propiedad, las vacunas, los pantalones vaqueros y las biblias chinas. Es la versión definitiva de la historia global contemporánea. La crítica ha dicho... «Un libro agudo y rabiosamente actual. Ferguson, dotado de una mente perspicaz, sabe cómo llegar al núcleo de las cosas y lo hace con gran pulso narrativo.» Andrew Marr, Financial Times «Civilización es otra obramaestra... una gran fuerza guía la exposición y cada página revela datos fascinantes.» Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times «Erudito y, a la vez, ameno.» Mario Vargas Llosa, El País «Uno de los historiadores más reconocidos del mundo.» Hamish McRae, Independent

Niall Ferguson (Author), Edson Matus (Narrator)

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Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats

An urgent look at how America's national security machine went astray and how it fails to keep us safe-and what we can do to fix it. Again and again, American taxpayers are asked to open their wallets and pay for a national security machine that costs $1 trillion operate. Yet time and time again, the US government gets it wrong on critical issues. So what can be done? Enter bestselling author Thom Shanker and defense expert Andrew Hoehn. With decades of national security expertise between them and access to virtually every expert, they look at what's going wrong in national security and how to make it go right. Age of Danger looks at the major challenges facing America-from superpowers like Russia and China to emerging threats like pandemics, cybersecurity, climate change, and drones-and reimagines the national security apparatus into something that can truly keep Americans safe. Weaving together expert analysis with exclusive interviews from a new generation of national security leaders, Shanker and Hoehn argue that the United States must create an industrial-grade, life-saving machine out of a system that, for too long, was focused only on deterring adversaries and carrying out global military operations. It is a timely and crucial call to action-a call that if heeded, could save Americans lives, money, and our very future on the global stage.

Andrew Hoehn, Thom Shanker (Author), Eric Jason Martin (Narrator)

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Agents of Influence: How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies

There's no such thing as a former KGB man. 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. In 1985, 1,300 KGB officers were stationed in the USA. The FBI only had 350 counter-intelligence officers. Since the early days of the Cold War, the KGB seduced parliamentarians and diplomats, infiltrated the highest echelons of the Civil Service, and planted fake news in papers across the world. More disturbingly, it never stopped. Putin is a KGB man through and through. Journalist Mark Hollingworth reveals how disinformation, kompromat and secret surveillance continue to play key roles in Russia's war with Ukraine. It seems frighteningly easy to destabilize Western democracy.

Mark Hollingsworth (Author), Elliot Fitzpatrick (Narrator)

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Dreamland: America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction

In a world of border walls and obstacles to migration, a lottery where winners can gain permanent residency in the United States sounds too good to be true. Just as unlikely is the idea that the United States would make such visas available to foster diversity within a country where systemic racism endures. But in 1990, the United States Diversity Visa Lottery was created to do just that. Dreamland tells the surprising story of this unlikely government program and its role in American life as well as the global story of migration. Historian Carly Goodman takes listeners from Washington, DC, where proponents deployed a colorblind narrative about our 'nation of immigrants' to secure visas for white immigrants, to the African countries where it flourished and fostered dreams of going to America. From the post office to the internet, aspiring emigrants, visa agents, and others embraced the lottery and tried their luck in a time of austerity and limits. Rising African immigration to the United States has enriched American life, created opportunities for mobility, and nourished imagined possibilities. But the promise of the American dream has been threatened by the United States' embrace of anti-immigrant policies and persistent anti-Black racism.

Carly Goodman (Author), Janet Metzger (Narrator)

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Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s

The Communist Party banned lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people from membership beginning in 1938 when it cast them off as 'degenerates.' It persisted in this policy until 1991. During this sixty-year ban, gays and lesbians who did join the Communist Party were deeply closeted within it, as well as in their public lives as both queer and Communist. By the late 1930s, the Communist Party had a membership approaching 100,000 and tens of thousands more people moved in its orbit through the Popular Front against fascism, anti-racist organizing, especially in the south, and its widely read cultural magazine, the New Masses. Based on a decade of archival research, correspondence, and interviews, Bettina Aptheker explores this history, also pulling from her own experience as a closeted lesbian in the Communist Party in the 1960s and '70s. Ironically, and in spite of this homophobia, individual Communists laid some of the political and theoretical foundations for lesbian and gay liberation and women's liberation, and contributed significantly to peace, social justice, civil rights, and Black and Latinx liberation movements. This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and anyone interested in political history, gender studies, and the history of sexuality.

Bettina Aptheker (Author), Ann Sprinkle (Narrator)

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[German] - Wir alle haben ein Recht auf Zukunft - Eine Ermutigung (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Der Klimawandel zerstört Lebensräume und Existenzgrundlagen vieler Menschen. Doch oft zeigen sich Regierungen unwillig, etwas dagegen zu unternehmen, und Firmen halten profitgetrieben an ihren überkommenen Geschäftsmodellen fest, die die Klimakrise weiter verschärfen. Was, so fragt man sich, lässt sich dagegen tun? Die medienbekannte Rechtsanwältin und Klimaaktivistin Roda Verheyen sagt klar und bestimmt: klagen. Jüngst, im April 2021, erstritt sie vor dem Bundesverfassungsgericht ihren größten Erfolg; dort wurde entschieden, dass ein 'Recht auf Zukunft' nicht durch mangelnden Klima- und Umweltschutz heute beeinträchtigt werden darf. Die Folge: Die Bundesregierung muss das Klimaschutzgesetz nachbessern. Anhand ihrer eigenen Erfahrungen und wichtigen internationalen Prozessfällen zeigt Roda Verheyen, dass vermeintlich Machtlose durchaus Gestaltungsmacht haben. Denn die Klagen schaffen Öffentlichkeit. Sie machen die Fakten für alle nachlesbar und für alle Gerichte anwendbar. Sie erhöhen den Druck. Jeder von uns, ob Opfer des Klimawandels oder Umweltschützer, sollte daher die Möglichkeit haben, mit Klimaklagen gegen Verantwortliche juristisch vorzugehen und sie zur Rechenschaft zu ziehen. Dort, wo die Kläger die Prozesse gewinnen, tun sie dies stellvertretend für viele andere, da gerichtliche Urteile Regierungen und Konzerne zum Handeln zwingen - und somit letztlich Veränderung bewirken. Dies ist ein Hörbuch, das Mut macht, im Kampf gegen große Klimasünder auch vor juristischen Mitteln nicht zurückzuschrecken.

Alexandra Endres, Roda Verheyen (Author), Heike Warmuth (Narrator)

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