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  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    ReviewEconomics books
    The Chancellors — is the Treasury fit for purpose?

    An economist’s primer on the UK Treasury over the past 25 years highlights how the office has struggled to change with the times

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    When democratic spin conceals a descent into dictatorship

    What separates autocrats from outright dictators? Two books consider the path to power, from Erdoğan’s rise in Turkey to strongmen leaders around the world

  • Monday, 9 May, 2022
    Review
    Gideon Rachman selects some of the best new writing on politics

    How China built influence in the US — and the professor who coined ‘G-Zero’ on the response to our present global crises

  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
    Review
    Sinostan — how China moved into Russia’s backyard

    A compelling geopolitical travelogue explores Beijing’s growing influence in Central Asia

  • Monday, 2 May, 2022
    Review
    The Avoidable War — averting a conflict between the US and China

    In his new book, former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd urges a policy of ‘managed strategic competition’

  • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
    Review
    The Age of the Strongman — Gideon Rachman on Putin, Trump and the rise of the autocrat

    An insightful who’s who of the ego-driven leaders reshaping the postwar order — and a call for vigilance

  • Tuesday, 12 April, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    A Brief History of Equality — the newly optimistic Thomas Piketty

    The French economist’s latest book condenses the arguments of his previous tomes but is short on the practical politics of real change

  • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
    Review
    America and China — the defining relationship

    Competitive co-operation or containment? Two books set out opposing views on how the US should approach its superpower rival

  • Wednesday, 30 March, 2022
    Review
    Who Are We Now? by Jason Cowley — looking for a new England

    This series of fascinating vignettes by the New Statesman editor attempts to map the emergence of the nation today

  • Tuesday, 15 March, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Liberalism and Its Discontents — Francis Fukuyama on fixing democracy

    The political philosopher takes on critics on both left and right to offer a to-do list for the liberal centre

  • Monday, 14 March, 2022
    ReviewGeopolitics
    Four new books about sanctions, Russia and avoiding war

    Can measures to avert conflict actually trigger it? And what would be a new cold war look like for the west?

  • Friday, 25 February, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    We Need Snowflakes — the case for the sensitive and the offended

    Hannah Jewell’s book tackles an insult emblematic of our polarised age — but can she convince the critics of ‘woke’?

  • Wednesday, 23 February, 2022
    FT Books Essay
    An Irish future — and the weight of history

    Three new books examine the violently fraught ties between England and its island neighbour and the prospects of unification

  • Tuesday, 25 January, 2022
    Review
    Gideon Rachman selects some of the best new writing on politics

    From populism to white privilege — a round-up of books tackling urgent questions of our time

  • Thursday, 30 December, 2021
    National Archives
    Tony Blair blocked action on Macpherson report on UK race relations

    Private memos show Number 10 pushback thwarted plan by Jack Straw to launch white paper on improving race relations

  • Wednesday, 15 December, 2021
    Review
    Germany’s Russia Problem — a tricky balancing act

    Be it Ukraine or energy supply, John Lough’s book says Berlin needs to hit a new note in relations with Moscow

  • Saturday, 11 December, 2021
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Against White Feminism by Rafia Zakaria — experience over empathy

    The American-Pakistani activist’s polemic against well-meaning western ‘woke’ women is sure to polarise opinion

  • Friday, 10 December, 2021
    ReviewHistory books
    The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan

    Authors David Kilcullen and Greg Mills assemble evidence and anecdotes to outline the west’s many missteps over 20 years

  • Thursday, 2 December, 2021
    ReviewHistory books
    Master of the Game — Kissinger’s perilous Middle East balancing act

    Martin Indyk’s revelatory account highlights the extraordinary geopolitical influence wielded by the former US secretary of state

  • Tuesday, 16 November, 2021
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2021
    Best books of 2021: Politics

    Gideon Rachman selects his must-read titles

  • Wednesday, 10 November, 2021
    FT Books Essay
    Hong Kong’s future — the pearl and the dragon

    Three books look at the territory’s recent tussles with Beijing and offer differing levels of optimism on the outlook for freedom

  • Thursday, 4 November, 2021
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Give war a chance — the new global balance of power

    Three books give their views on rising tensions between east and west, the theatres of battle and what must be done to gain ascendancy

  • Wednesday, 29 September, 2021
    Review
    Broken Heartlands by Sebastian Payne — Labour’s love lost

    The FT’s Whitehall editor provides a fascinating travelogue in search of the north of England’s political shift to the right

  • Friday, 24 September, 2021
    Review
    There Is Nothing for You Here by Fiona Hill — memoir from Trump White House

    Reflections from a senior US official with a working-class British background makes for a valuable and riveting historic read

  • Thursday, 23 September, 2021
    Philip Stephens
    The French are right about the Americans

    Washington has always been careless of its allies in the pursuit of the US national interest

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