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 David...
22 Jan 202019min
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 ...
15 Jan 202015min
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 f...
8 Jan 202015min
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...
2 Jan 202012min
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.
18 Dec 201917min
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 Ru...
11 Dec 201914min
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 a...
4 Dec 201922min
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 C...
27 Nov 201917min
