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  • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
    The best books of the week
    How America picks its battles

    Isolationist superpower or still ‘the world’s policeman’? Two books explore the competing impulses in US politics

  • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
    ReviewHistory books
    The long shadow of Iraq and its lessons today

    Melvyn Leffler’s new history of the war against Saddam reveals how guilt, fear and hubris led to a fateful military intervention

  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Questions of privilege

    Is the term ‘white privilege’ doing more harm than good? Three insightful books look at anti-Semitism, migration and class amid the battle to end racism

  • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
    Review
    Spies and Lies by Alex Joske — inside China’s intelligence operation

    A new book distils huge amounts of open-source information on Beijing’s Ministry of State Security

  • Friday, 9 December, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Global Discord by Paul Tucker — holding on to values and power

    The former deputy governor of the Bank of England lays out principles for international co-operation in the face of geopolitical challenges

  • Friday, 9 December, 2022
    Non-Fiction
    A united Ireland? Perspectives on a shifting political landscape

    As unification rises up the agenda, traditional allegiances are challenged by demographic change — and the fallout from Brexit

  • Friday, 25 November, 2022
    FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022
    Best books of 2022: Politics

    Gideon Rachman selects his must-read titles

  • Monday, 24 October, 2022
    Review
    From China to cyber space — the best new politics books

    Training a spotlight on Chinese influence are these new titles tackling economy, security and Covid lockdowns

  • Friday, 14 October, 2022
    ReviewFiction
    Kilometer 101 by Maxim Osipov — stories of Russian exile

    The writer on the savage realities of the homeland he fled at the start of the Ukraine war

  • Wednesday, 12 October, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Command by Lawrence Freedman — the politics of the battlefield

    A compelling study of leadership during conflict should be required reading for those who send soldiers to war

  • Monday, 29 August, 2022
    Review
    Genre round-up — the best new political books

    From biographies of Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin to two books that seek a new kind of politics through imaginative thinking about the future

  • Tuesday, 16 August, 2022
    Review
    The Real Special Relationship by Michael Smith — spies like us

    Eighty years of intelligence-sharing between the US and UK are judiciously chronicled in this enlightening read

  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
    Summer Books 2022
    What books should you read this summer?

    Listen to our Twitter discussion with FT literary editor Frederick Studemann, deputy books editor Laura Battle and FT Weekend podcast host Lilah Raptopoulos

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    Summer Books 2022
    Best summer books of 2022: Politics

    Gideon Rachman selects his best mid-year reads

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Summer Books 2022

    From politics, economics and history to art, food and, of course, fiction — FT writers and critics choose their favourite reads of the year so far

  • Tuesday, 31 May, 2022
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Is America heading for civil war?

    A clutch of books makes an alarmingly persuasive case that the warning lights are flashing redder than at any point since 1861

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    ReviewEconomics books
    The Chancellors — is the Treasury fit for purpose?

    An economist’s primer on the UK Treasury over the past 25 years highlights how the office has struggled to change with the times

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    When democratic spin conceals a descent into dictatorship

    What separates autocrats from outright dictators? Two books consider the path to power, from Erdoğan’s rise in Turkey to strongmen leaders around the world

  • Monday, 9 May, 2022
    Review
    Gideon Rachman selects some of the best new writing on politics

    How China built influence in the US — and the professor who coined ‘G-Zero’ on the response to our present global crises

  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
    Review
    Sinostan — how China moved into Russia’s backyard

    A compelling geopolitical travelogue explores Beijing’s growing influence in Central Asia

  • Monday, 2 May, 2022
    Review
    The Avoidable War — averting a conflict between the US and China

    In his new book, former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd urges a policy of ‘managed strategic competition’

  • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
    Review
    The Age of the Strongman — Gideon Rachman on Putin, Trump and the rise of the autocrat

    An insightful who’s who of the ego-driven leaders reshaping the postwar order — and a call for vigilance

  • Tuesday, 12 April, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    A Brief History of Equality — the newly optimistic Thomas Piketty

    The French economist’s latest book condenses the arguments of his previous tomes but is short on the practical politics of real change

  • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
    Review
    America and China — the defining relationship

    Competitive co-operation or containment? Two books set out opposing views on how the US should approach its superpower rival

  • Wednesday, 30 March, 2022
    Review
    Who Are We Now? by Jason Cowley — looking for a new England

    This series of fascinating vignettes by the New Statesman editor attempts to map the emergence of the nation today

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