State of Disaster
The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change
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Natural disasters and the dire effects of climate change cause massive population displacements and lead to some of the most intractable political and humanitarian challenges seen today. Yet, as Maria Cristina Garcia observes in this critical history of U.S. policy on migration in the Global South, there is actually no such thing as a "climate refugee" under current U.S. law. Most initiatives intended to assist those who must migrate are flawed and ineffective from inception because they are derived from outmoded policies. In a world of climate change, U.S. refugee policy simply does not work.
Garcia focuses on Central America and the Caribbean, where natural disasters have repeatedly worsened poverty, inequality, and domestic and international political tensions. She explains that the creation of better U.S. policy for those escaping disasters is severely limited by the 1980 Refugee Act, which continues to be applied almost exclusively for reasons of persecution directly related to politics, race, religion, and identity. Garcia contends that the United States must transform its outdated migration policies to address today's realities. Climate change and natural disasters are here to stay, and much of the human devastation left in their wake is essentially a policy choice.
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In the next decade and a half, China and India will become two of the world's indispensable powers - whether they rise peacefully or not. During that time, Asia will surpass the combined strength of North America and Europe in economic might, population size, and military spending. Both India and China will have vetoes over many international decisions, from climate change to global trade, human rights, and business standards.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book, could be better
- De General en 09-23-16
De: Anja Manuel
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The End of the Asian Century
- War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region
- De: Michael R. Auslin
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 10 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 49
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Historian and geopolitical expert Michael Auslin argues that far from being a cohesive powerhouse, Asia is a fractured region threatened by stagnation and instability. Here he provides a comprehensive account of the economic, military, political, and demographic risks that bedevil half of our world, arguing that Asia, working with the United States, has a unique opportunity to avert catastrophe - but only if it acts boldly.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wake up Call
- De Daniel B. en 07-07-17
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The World
- A Brief Introduction
- De: Richard Haass
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 456
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 363
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 363
The World is designed to provide listeners of any age and experience with the essential background and building blocks they need to make sense of this complicated and interconnected world. It will empower them to manage the flood of daily news. Listeners will become more informed, discerning citizens, better able to arrive at sound, independent judgments. While it is impossible to predict what the next crisis will be or where it will originate, those who listen to The World will have what they need to understand its basics and the principal choices for how to respond.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Primer for young adults
- De Howells en 05-24-20
De: Richard Haass
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Every Nation for Itself
- Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World
- De: Ian Bremmer
- Narrado por: Willis Sparks
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 53
Forget the G-7 and the G-20; we are entering a leaderless "G- Zero" era- with profound implications for every country and corporation. The world power structure is facing a vacuum at the top. With the unifying urgency of the financial crisis behind us, the diverse political and economic values of the G-20 are curtailing the world's most powerful governments' ability to mediate growing global challenges. There is no viable alternative group to take its place.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well articulated and thought provoking
- De Mark en 08-09-12
De: Ian Bremmer
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It's Better Than It Looks
- De: Gregg Easterbrook
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
Most people who pay attention to the news would tell you that 2017 is one of the worst years in recent memory. We're facing a series of deeply troubling, even existential problems: fascism, terrorism, environmental collapse, racial and economic inequality, and more. Yet this narrative misses something important: by almost every meaningful measure, the modern world is better than it ever has been. In the United States, disease, crime, discrimination, and most forms of pollution are in long-term decline, while longevity and education keep rising.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too political
- De Anonymous User en 07-12-18
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Central America's Forgotten History
- Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
- De: Aviva Chomsky
- Narrado por: Aida Reluzco
- Duración: 10 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
At the center of the current immigration debate are migrants from Central America fleeing poverty, corruption, and violence in search of refuge in the United States. In Central America’s Forgotten History, Aviva Chomsky answers the urgent question “How did we get here?” Centering the centuries-long intertwined histories of US expansion and indigenous and Central American struggles against inequality and oppression, Chomsky highlights the pernicious cycle of colonial and neocolonial development policies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outline of a rigged game
- De Buretto en 02-07-22
De: Aviva Chomsky
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Foreign Policy Begins at Home
- De: Richard Haass
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
The biggest threat to the United States comes not from abroad but from within. This is the provocative, timely, and unexpected message of Council on Foreign Relations President Richard N. Haass’ Foreign Policy Begins at Home. A rising China, climate change, terrorism, a nuclear Iran, a turbulent Middle East, and a reckless North Korea all present serious challenges. But U.S. national security depends even more on the United States addressing its burgeoning deficit and debt, crumbling infrastructure, second-class schools, and outdated immigration system
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5 out of 5 stars
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A chronological,systematic teaching on the Foreign policy of the USA by a diplomat
- De Lawrence Obisakin en 11-28-24
De: Richard Haass
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The Last President of Europe
- Emmanuel Macron's Race to Revive France and Save the World
- De: William Drozdiak
- Narrado por: Paul Hodgson
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
A revelatory examination of the global impact of Emmanuel Macron's tumultuous presidency. In The Last President of Europe, William Drozdiak tells with exclusive inside access the story of Macron's presidency and the political challenges the French leader continues to face.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting but poorly read
- De Anonymous User en 05-12-22
De: William Drozdiak
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Tropic of Chaos
- Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
- De: Christian Parenti
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53
From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure. In Tropic of Chaos, investigative journalist Christian Parenti travels along the front lines of this gathering catastrophe - the belt of economically and politically battered postcolonial nations and war zones girding the planet's mid-latitudes. Here he finds failed states amid climatic disasters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolute must-read topic!
- De Kevin en 07-07-14
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Refuge
- Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World
- De: Paul Collier, Alexander Betts
- Narrado por: Clive Chafer
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 22
Refuge seeks to restore moral purpose and clarity to refugee policy. Rather than assuming indefinite dependency, Collier - author of The Bottom Billion - and his Oxford colleague Betts propose a humanitarian approach integrated with a new economic agenda that begins with jobs, restores autonomy, and rebuilds people's ability to help themselves and their societies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Academic
- De Jonah en 09-30-19
De: Paul Collier, y otros
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Brazil
- The Troubled Rise of a Global Power
- De: Michael Reid
- Narrado por: Michael Healy
- Duración: 16 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 61
Experts believe that Brazil, the world's fifth largest country and its seventh largest economy, will be one of the most important global powers by the year 2030. Yet far more attention has been paid to the other rising behemoths: Russia, India, and China. Often ignored and underappreciated, Brazil, according to renowned, award-winning journalist Michael Reid, has finally begun to live up to its potential but faces important challenges before it becomes a nation of substantial global significance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good short history of Brazil, lame pronunciation
- De Bubu Mungani en 07-21-19
De: Michael Reid
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Building the New American Economy
- Smart, Fair, and Sustainable
- De: Jeffrey D. Sachs, Bernie Sanders - foreward
- Narrado por: Rudy Sanda
- Duración: 4 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
With a nation seemingly more divided than ever, many worry that Americans risk losing ground on solving the complex, interrelated problems the country faces - including rising inequality, the specter of climate change, astronomical health care costs, and economic stagnation. The renowned economist Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a practical approach to move America toward a new consensus: sustainable development.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If only....
- De Baboo TH en 01-24-18
De: Jeffrey D. Sachs, y otros
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Disunited Nations
- The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World
- De: Peter Zeihan
- Narrado por: Peter Zeihan, Roy Worley
- Duración: 16 h y 8 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,977
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,658
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,645
In Disunited Nations, geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan presents a series of counterintuitive arguments about the future of a world where trade agreements are coming apart and international institutions are losing their power. Germany will decline as the most powerful country in Europe, with France taking its place. Every country should prepare for the collapse of China, not North Korea. We are already seeing, as Zeihan predicts, a shift in outlook on the Middle East: it is no longer Iran that is the region’s most dangerous threat, but Saudi Arabia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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brilliant geopolitical primer re the future
- De Howard en 04-11-20
De: Peter Zeihan
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Killing the Planet
- De: Rodney Howard-Browne, Paul L. Williams
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 14 h y 15 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 22
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 19
In Killing the Planet: How A Financial Cartel Doomed Mankind, best-selling authors Rodney Howard-Browne and Paul L. Williams investigate the true motives and consequences of the Pilgrim Society. Early members of the Society included J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Mellon, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Paul Warburg, Mortimer I. Schiff, Otto Kahn, and John D. Rockefeller.
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5 out of 5 stars
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superb
- De Doug Dobbins en 11-28-20
De: Rodney Howard-Browne, y otros
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Golden Gulag
- Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
- De: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
- Narrado por: Machelle Williams
- Duración: 7 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Since 1980, the number of people in US prisons has increased more than 450 percent. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world". Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces conjoined to produce the prison boom.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Started off great but devolved into case study
- De normal person en 10-16-21
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Why Geography Matters
- More Than Ever
- De: Harm de Blij
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 99
In recent years our world has seen transformations of all kinds: intense climate change accompanied by significant weather extremes; deadly tsunamis caused by submarine earthquakes; unprecedented terrorist attacks; costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; a terrible and overlooked conflict in Equatorial Africa costing millions of lives; an economic crisis threatening the stability of the international system.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A book that needs more than just narration
- De Organic Design en 06-10-15
De: Harm de Blij