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The Tragic Mind
- Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
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Summary
A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy
Some books emerge from a lifetime of hard-won knowledge. Robert D. Kaplan has learned, from a career spent reporting on wars, revolutions, and international politics in Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, that the essence of geopolitics is tragedy. In The Tragic Mind, he employs the works of ancient Greek dramatists, Shakespeare, German philosophers, and the modern classics to explore the central subjects of international politics: order, disorder, rebellion, ambition, loyalty to family and state, violence, and the mistakes of power. The great dilemmas of international politics, he argues, are not posed by good versus evil—a clear and easy choice—but by contests of good versus good, where the choices are often searing, incompatible, and fraught with consequences. A deeply learned and deeply felt meditation on the importance of lived experience in conducting international relations, this is a book for everyone who wants a profound understanding of the tragic politics of our time.
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- A. D. Thomas
- 18-01-23
Flawed annoying audio quality control
Chapters repeat multiple times. Like Groundhog Day. Please save future readers from frustration by fixing problems
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- Goedele Antonissen
- 25-02-23
Audible, please fix this audiobook
Author seems to have an interesting message to the world but audio is littered with redundant passages. Have other passages been omitted as well? Don't buy this book before Audible has made the necessary technical interventions for a non-frustrating listening experience.
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- Marcos Nolasco
- 13-02-23
Incredible failures in revision for audiobook
Chapters 7, 9 and 13 are repeated, respectively on segments 9-10, 12-13 and 17-18. When compared to the print edition it seems that no content was lost, but it is an awful experience for the listeners. I will not return the book, because I liked the author's arguments, but I think Audible should already have fixed this problem.
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- Joe
- 28-01-23
Needed an editor
The book itself is mostly a journalistic apology for prior dalliances in the making of foreign policy and regret about how things turned out. I don't find the framework of tragedy as being particularly useful whether one is trying to diagnose situations or formulate policy, but I suppose what most stuck out for me was how poorly edited this book was. On multiple occasions there were sentences and whole paragraphs that one had heard before that popped up again in a different chapter verbatim. as I listen to this book in audiobook form, that was rather disconcerting as you had to keep wondering whether something was wrong with the recording.
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- John
- 27-01-23
The recording is a redundant mess, repeating long passages sometimes several times.
Another brilliant book by Kaplan, providing foreign policy realism through elaborate references to literary classics. A minor tragedy is the production errors in this recording.
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- Scott Cooper
- 25-01-23
Once again brilliance and wisdom from Kaplan
He is the great wise thoughtful geopolitical writer of our time. Kaplan has done it again.
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- Karl
- 21-01-23
Technical problems harm excellent book
This is a very good book but it suffers from technical glitches. Material repeats in several spots which took away from what should have been an excellent listening experience.
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- DR DEEPAK KADIYALA
- 21-01-23
What is this book about??
A mindless rambling to no end. Utter waste of your time.
From revenge of geography to this!!