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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.

Email Gideon Rachman @gideonrachman  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Monday, 28 October, 2024
    North Korea
    The west underestimates North Korea at its peril

    Kim Jong Un’s intervention in the Ukraine war reflects a dangerous turn in Pyongyang’s approach to the world

    Illustration of  a nuclear missile standing on the North Korean flag
  • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
    Rachman Review podcast24 min listen
    The trauma of life and death in Gaza

    ‘I sometimes feel almost ashamed at what we are allowing to happen’

  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    What the world thinks of Harris versus Trump

    Strongman leaders around the globe would welcome a victory for the Republican former president

    A James Ferguson illustration of a person with a globe head looking through binoculars that have silhouettes of Donald Trump on one lens and Kamala Harris on the other
  • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
    Rachman Review podcast26 min listen
    Afghanistan: a country on the edge

    Sanctions have not changed the Taliban — is it time to re-engage?

  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    Geopolitics
    While Europe frets, India expects

    European foreboding about peace and stability in the world finds little echo in New Delhi

    Illustration of the outline of the map of India filled with a tranquil picture of green fields and blue skies while around it dark clouds swirl interspersed with explosions
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Rachman Review podcast23 min listen
    Germany’s ‘deplorable’ divide on the Ukraine war

    CDU politician accuses Olaf Scholz of a failure of leadership

  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    The false promise of regime change in Iran

    Military intervention is not the way to bring about the fall of the Islamic republic

    James Ferguson illustration of Netanyahu trying to topple a Supreme Leader statue.
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Rachman Review podcast24 min listen
    Israel presses its military advantage

    Iran launches missile attacks on Tel Aviv as Israel moves troops into Lebanon

  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Instant InsightUS foreign policy
    Israel and Iran have just delivered the US election’s ‘October surprise’

    With American policy in the Middle East in tatters, Donald Trump could be the principal beneficiary of escalation in the region

    Palestinian youths inspect a fallen projectile after Iran launched a barrage of missiles at Israel
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The best recent politics books — insights on conflict

    The US foreign policy machine in action, origins of the new cold war, and Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as viewed from Washington

    Three book covers side by side:
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    Middle East war
    Israel dreams of a new order in the Middle East

    But escalating the conflict further is more likely to lead to regional chaos

    Illustration of two rockets, one with the Israeli flag and the other with the Iranian flag, on a chess board
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Political Fix podcast26 min listen
    Starmer’s ‘weird’ week: from Liverpool to New York

    Plus, Labour plots how to grow an economy when the state coffers are empty

  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Rachman Review podcast20 min listen
    How will Hizbollah respond to Israel’s Lebanon onslaught?

    Battered militia 'still has thousands of angry members with missiles'

  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Germany, political extremism and the risks to Ukraine

    The fracturing of politics in the Federal Republic threatens western unity and support for Kyiv

    Illustration of the German flag with a shadow of a bear representing Russia
  • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
    FT SeriesThe FT Magazine’s Guide to the Business Lunch
    The FT’s favourite business lunch restaurants in London

    17 venues in and around the City worth rescheduling your 2pm for, and the best tables at each

    A stylish restaurant interior with round tables covered in white tablecloths, surrounded by wicker-backed chairs. Two black-and-white framed portraits hang on the wall
  • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
    ObituaryVictor Halberstadt
    Victor Halberstadt, chair of the Bilderberg foundation, 1939-2024

    His deep commitment to the transatlantic relationship was rooted in his wartime experiences

    Victor Halberstadt
  • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
    Rachman Review podcast21 min listen
    Does the UN still matter? With António Guterres

    The UN secretary-general defends the UN's role in tackling international crises

  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Europe Express
    How to make sense of Brussels’ new tangled commission web Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Friedrich Merz finally throws his hat in the ring for German chancellor

    Wopke Hoekstra
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    US-China trade dispute
    China, America and a global struggle for power and influence

    The whole world risks losing from the rivalry between Washington and Beijing

    A James Ferguson illustration of a bullet train passing through a landscape at dusk with Mount Fiji in the background, a bald eagle hovering above and some stars in the sky in the shape of the Chinese national flag
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Rachman Review podcast29 min listen
    Why Russians are still backing Putin

    A mix of propaganda, payouts and prison are keeping the Russian population quiet

  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Kamala Harris has to dazzle in the debate

    The Democratic candidate badly needs a breakthrough to restore momentum to her campaign

    James Ferguson illustration of Harris and Trump depicted as arguing microphones
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    Rachman Review podcast26 min listen
    The truth behind QAnon’s lies

    How conspiracy theories took hold in the US

  • Monday, 2 September, 2024
    Elon Musk
    Elon Musk is an unguided geopolitical missile

    While his influence is showing up from Ukraine to China, he still lacks the ability to make the law

    James Ferguson illustration of Elon Musk as a ballistic missile.
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    Rachman Review podcast24 min listen
    Japan raises its defences

    Tokyo strengthens alliances and defence spending amid heightened regional tensions

  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Ukraine has crossed Moscow’s and Washington’s red lines

    Zelenskyy is prepared to ignore Russia’s nuclear threats. But the Biden administration is still wary of escalating the war

    A James Ferguson illustration of tanks bearing Ukrainian flags driving over a Russian flag
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