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Gideon Rachman

Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator

Gideon Rachman became chief foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Times in July 2006. He joined the FT after a 15-year career at The Economist, which included spells as a foreign correspondent in Brussels, Washington and Bangkok.

He also edited The Economist’s business and Asia sections. His particular interests include American foreign policy, the European Union and globalisation.

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  • Monday, 30 November, 2020
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    The perils and pitfalls of building multiracial democracies

    Managing ethnic, religious and cultural tensions is a challenge for countries all over the world

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    Corruption is rotting the periphery of Europe

    The continent’s problems extend to troubled democracies beyond Hungary and Poland

  • Wednesday, 18 November, 2020
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    Best books of 2020: Politics

    Gideon Rachman selects his must-read titles 

  • Monday, 16 November, 2020
    US foreign policy
    Biden’s flawed plan for global leadership

    The signing of a huge trade deal in Asia shows the world is moving on without the US

  • Wednesday, 11 November, 2020
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    Biden in the White House: which world leaders stand to lose out?

    For Russia’s Putin, India’s Modi and the UK’s Johnson, relations with the US will become more challenging

  • Monday, 9 November, 2020
    Populism
    Populists worldwide have lost their leader

    Donald Trump’s loss will deflate many autocrats outside the US, but it will not defeat them

  • Monday, 2 November, 2020
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    Democracy can fail anywhere, even in America

    Trump’s suggestions that he will not accept defeat puts the country’s values under unprecedented strain

  • Monday, 26 October, 2020
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    China’s Covid triumphalism could be premature

    A cult of personality around President Xi threatens to bring bad government in its wake

  • Monday, 19 October, 2020
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    Political turmoil in Washington may open a window of opportunity for Beijing

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    Three strongmen and their battle for the Middle East

    The Russian, Turkish and Saudi leaders are engaged in a struggle for power and influence

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    The Johnson government should fear Trump, not Biden

    A second Trump administration would adopt a much more coercive foreign policy towards the UK

  • Monday, 5 October, 2020
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    A new cold war: Trump, Xi and the escalating US-China confrontation

    In the first of a series, Gideon Rachman explores how the rivalry between the two superpowers is starting to feel eerily familiar

  • Monday, 28 September, 2020
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    America’s history war looms over the presidential election

    Trump’s call for ‘patriotic education’ creates a dilemma for the Democrats

  • Monday, 21 September, 2020
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    Beware the long arms of American and Chinese law

    A rules-based order is giving way to something that feels more like 19th-century imperialism

  • Friday, 18 September, 2020
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    Gideon Rachman’s fantasy dinner party

    The FT columnist talks 20th-century history with some of its key figures

  • Monday, 14 September, 2020
    German politics
    Germany has more pressing concerns than Brexit

    There is a world of rogue powers with an animus against the EU to deal with first

  • Monday, 7 September, 2020
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    Erosion of nuclear deterrence makes India-China relations critical

    Countries with nuclear weapons are moving closer to military confrontation

  • Monday, 31 August, 2020
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    Shinzo Abe and his struggle with Xi Jinping

    The outgoing Japanese prime minister was right to reject appeasement

  • Monday, 24 August, 2020
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    Democrats cannot rule out Trump victory

    Pinning hopes on positive polls puts party in danger of ignoring the lessons of 2016

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    The decoupling of the US and China has only just begun

    Business logic has been displaced by strategic rivalry

  • Monday, 10 August, 2020
    Religion
    Modi and Erdogan thrive on divisive identity politics

    The Indian and Turkish leaders are remaking their nations as faith-based states

  • Thursday, 6 August, 2020
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    Turkey’s assertive foreign policy

    Sinan Ulgen on the Hagia Sophia controversy and Turkish actions in Syria and Libya

  • Monday, 3 August, 2020
    Brexit
    How Brexit may strengthen the west

    A revived EU will be a stronger partner for the US

  • Monday, 6 July, 2020
    Hong Kong politics
    Why Hong Kong cannot be another Singapore

    The rule of law is threatened by Communist party authority

  • Monday, 29 June, 2020
    Populism
    Coronavirus could kill off populism

    Trump, Bolsonaro and Johnson have all demonstrated incompetence in a crisis

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