Gideon Rachman

Gideon Rachman is the chief foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Times. He is the author of Zero-Sum World: Politics, Power and Prosperity after the Crash, Easternisation: War and Peace in the Asian Century and The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World. In 2016 he won the Orwell Prize for Journalism and was named Commentator of the Year at the European Press Prize awards. He also hosts the weekly podcast, The Rachman Review, which won international podcast of the year at the Political Podcast Awards in 2025.

Books by Gideon Rachman

War Is Interested In You

Gideon Rachman

A rich, uniquely well-sourced and deeply insightful analysis of global affairs that lays bare the potential risk of a third world war.

The Age of The Strongman

Gideon Rachman

A sweeping, penetrating and first truly global explanation of the dangerous state of our world, by one of the best-connected, most respected reporters on international politics

Easternisation

Gideon Rachman

The West’s domination of world politics is coming to a close. The flow of wealth and power is turning from West to East and a new era of global instability has begun.