The Rachman Review
Episodes
US economist William Spriggs on scars of the pandemic
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Many countries agreed that the best way to stem the pandemic was to shut down movement, but the US took a different path than its peers in handling th...
Is US global leadership still possible?
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump’s “America First” policy represented a marked shift in how the US engaged with its allies. Now Democratic presidential contender Jo...
Fabulists and the limits of deception
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gideon Rachman talks to FT journalist Michael Peel about the use of false and misleading narratives by world leaders in democracies and dictatorships ...
Putin: a president trapped in power
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Now in power until 2036 after a recent constitutional change, Vladimir Putin is nevertheless facing a difficult future as the Russian economy stagnate...
Black Lives Matter goes international
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In recent weeks people across the world have joined Black Lives Matter protests in response to the police killing of George Floyd in the US. Some acti...
Brazil: a country without a plan
25 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brazil this week became the second country after the US to register more than 50,000 deaths from Covid-19. President Bolsonaro’s mis-handling of the...
India’s twin crises: coronavirus and China
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
India is facing two crises: coronavirus and China. Despite one of the toughest lockdowns in the world, the country has not been able to bring the pand...
Is global oil dominance coming to an end?
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Will the current pandemic hasten the end of the oil era, and if so what impact will this have on the global economy and geopolitics? Gideon Rachman di...
George Floyd and the politics of protest
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The killing of George Floyd by Minnesota police officers sparked protests in cities across the United States and a government crackdown after nights o...
A new diplomacy in the Pacific Rim
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Australia is in the crosshairs of China’s ‘wolf warrior’ diplomacy after Prime Minister Scott Morrison called for an inquiry into the origins of...
Merkel’s pandemic moment
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A German court’s challenge to the supremacy of EU law has brought Chancellor Angela Merkel back into the limelight after she had been regarded as a ...
China comes out of lockdown
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
China was once the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, but now the country is coming out of lockdown. Gideon Rachman talks to FT correspondents Yua...
Joseph Nye on presidential morality during the pandemic
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gideon Rachman talks to American political scientist Joseph Nye about how the moral stances adopted by past US presidents boosted the country's soft p...
Coronavirus in Africa
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gideon Rachman discusses how African countries are coping with the pandemic with Donald Kaberuka, a Rwandan economist and former president of the Afri...
Politics and perils of running the WHO
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gro Harlem Brundtland, former WHO chief, talks to Gideon Rachman about how she handled the SARS pandemic, why the world was not prepared for coronavir...
Francis Fukuyama on coronavirus and the crisis of trust
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gideon Rachman talks to writer Francis Fukuyama about the way different political systems have responded to the pandemic and about the crisis of trust...
Coronavirus and curbs on democratic freedoms
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gideon Rachman talks to journalist and historian Anne Applebaum about the threat to democracy as authoritarian leaders like Viktor Orban in Hungary ex...
New York hit by double shock
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gideon Rachman talks to the FT's Gillian Tett about New Yorkers' battle to contain the coronavirus pandemic and the shock to the US financial system t...
Life in Europe's coronavirus hotspots
25 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Foreign affairs columnist Gideon Rachman discusses how the coronavirus epidemic has been handled in Italy and Spain with the local FT correspondents, ...
Pandemics in the age of hyperconnectivity
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's Rachman Review, Gideon Rachman speaks to Ian Goldin of Oxford University - an economist who has long warned of the dangers of pandemics...
How Saudi Arabia and Iran's rivalry is unravelling the Middle East
11 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why has the Middle East been in turmoil for decades? Author Kim Ghattas argues that the contest for supremacy between the Saudis and the Iranians is k...
Human rights under threat from politics
04 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gideon Rachman talks to Andrew Gilmour, former UN assistant secretary-general for human rights about the increase in human rights violations over the ...
How is Modi's ideology shaping Indian society?
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The ideology shaping India today is markedly different from the time of its first post-independence prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Narendra Modi an...
Is there a Democrat that can beat Trump?
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With the Democratic primaries underway and Super Tuesday on the horizon this week's episode takes a look at the US presidential election. Is there a D...
Bolsonaro’s isolationism and deference to Trump
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Celso Amorim, who served as foreign minister under former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, talks to Gideon Rachman about Jair Bolsonaro...
The global politics of climate change
05 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gideon Rachman talks to historian Adam Tooze about his forthcoming book on the origins of the climate crisis and the prospects for international agree...
'Let's just get out of there' is not a strategy
29 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
General John Allen, head of the Brookings Institution and former Nato forces commander, talks to Gideon Rachman about the importance of clear objectiv...
Taiwan treads fine line between democracy and China
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of Tsai Ing-Wen’s re-election as President of Taiwan, Gideon Rachman discusses the Asian island's future ties with China and the rest of...
The dictator and the strongman
15 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gideon Rachman talks to Frank Dikötter, professor of humanities at the University of Hong Kong and author of How to be a dictator, about the cult of ...
Africa’s transnational challenges
08 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change, increased violence in the Sahel, and foreign intervention: Gideon Rachman talks to Comfort Ero, International Crisis Group’s Africa ...
Matteo Renzi on the problem with populists
02 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gideon Rachman talks to Italy's former centre-left prime minister Matteo Renzi about the problem with populists, how to solve Europe's migration crisi...
Central Europe's backlash against liberal ideas
18 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gideon Rachman talks to Bulgarian academic and writer Ivan Krastev about the rise of populist leaders in central and eastern Europe. Hosted on Acast. ...
Tensions at the heart of Europe
11 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gideon Rachman talks to Franziska Brantner, a rising star of Germany's Green party and its spokesperson on European policy, about the tense relationsh...
The future of British unity and the EU
04 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gideon Rachman talks to Denis Staunton, London editor for the Irish Times and Tessa Szyszkowitz, author and UK correspondent for Austrian news magazin...
Xi Jinping's China
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gideon Rachman talks to Minxin Pei of Claremont McKenna College in California and Elizabeth Economy of the Council on foreign relations in New Yo...
Germany's shifting foreign policy
20 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Bagger, chief foreign policy adviser to the German president, talks to Gideon Rachman about the fall of the Berlin Wall and Germany's position ...
What would a progressive Democratic president look like?
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Warren is the bookmakers' favourite to win the US Democratic party presidential nomination. Gideon Rachman discusses what a Warren presidenc...
Singapore and the US-China trade war
06 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Writer and former diplomat Kishore Mahbubani talks to Gideon Rachman about the US-China trade war and Singapore's special relationship with both sides...
Nick Clegg on Facebook
30 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The former UK deputy premier talks to Gideon Rachman about his new role at Facebook and regulating big tech Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...
Trump's China policy
23 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gideon Rachman talks to Nadia Schadlow, widely regarded as the intellectual architect of Trump's foreign policy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...
Trump, Brexit and America's shrinking role
16 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gideon Rachman discusses the similarities between the Brexit and Trump phenomena and America's shrinking role on the global stage with two London-base...
Putin's Russia
09 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gideon Rachman goes to Moscow to talk to Fyodor Lukyanov, editor-in-chief of the journal Russia in Global Affairs and regarded as close to Vladimir Pu...
Coming soon: Putin's Russia
26 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this new podcast exclusively for FT subscribers, Gideon Rachman takes you with him on his travels, as he meets the decision-makers and thinkers who...
Introducing The Rachman Review
20 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Rachman Review is a brand new podcast, produced exclusively for FT Subscribers.Gideon brings you into the debates and trends shaping global politi...