The Rachman Review
Financial Times
Gideon Rachman, the Financial Times chief foreign affairs columnist talks to the decision-makers and thinkers who are shaping world affairs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jan 22, 2020 • 20min
Taiwan treads fine line between democracy and China
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 world with Shelley Rigger, a professor at Davidson College in the US and Taiwan expert, Ketty Chen, head of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy and Professor Alexander Huang, adviser to the opposition KMT party. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 15, 2020 • 16min
The dictator and the strongman
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 personality behind some of the twentieth century’s most renowned dictators and which of today's leaders fall under the same category. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 8, 2020 • 15min
Africa’s transnational challenges
Climate change, increased violence in the Sahel, and foreign intervention: Gideon Rachman talks to Comfort Ero, International Crisis Group’s Africa Program Director, about what the African continent faces in 2020. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 2, 2020 • 12min
Matteo Renzi on the problem with populists
Gideon Rachman talks to Italy's former centre-left prime minister Matteo Renzi about the problem with populists, how to solve Europe's migration crisis and his future role in politics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 18, 2019 • 17min
Central Europe's backlash against liberal ideas
Gideon Rachman talks to Bulgarian academic and writer Ivan Krastev about the rise of populist leaders in central and eastern Europe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 11, 2019 • 15min
Tensions at the heart of Europe
Gideon Rachman talks to Franziska Brantner, a rising star of Germany's Green party and its spokesperson on European policy, about the tense relationship between France and Germany as discussions on Russia, China and deregulation take centre stage. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 4, 2019 • 22min
The future of British unity and the EU
Gideon Rachman talks to Denis Staunton, London editor for the Irish Times and Tessa Szyszkowitz, author and UK correspondent for Austrian news magazine Profil, about the future of Britain and the EU ahead of a Brexit-focused UK general election. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 27, 2019 • 18min
Xi Jinping's China
Gideon Rachman talks to Minxin Pei of Claremont McKenna College in California and Elizabeth Economy of the Council on foreign relations in New York about the cult of personality around Xi Jinping in China. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 20, 2019 • 24min
Germany's shifting foreign policy
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 in a changing European Union. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 13, 2019 • 21min
What would a progressive Democratic president look like?
Elizabeth Warren is the bookmakers' favourite to win the US Democratic party presidential nomination. Gideon Rachman discusses what a Warren presidency would mean for the rest of the world with Tom Wright, US foreign policy analyst at the Brookings Institution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
