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Gideon Rachman (born 1963) is a journalist who has been the ''Financial Times'' chief foreign affairs commentator since July 2006. He studied at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University where he obtained a first class honours degree in History in 1984. While at Gonville and Caius, he was a friend of future MI6 renegade agent Richard Tomlinson, whom he provided with a reference for his Kennedy Scholarship application. He started his career with the BBC World Service in 1984. From 1988 to 1990, he became a reporter for The Sunday Correspondent, stationed in Washington DC. He spent 15 years at ''The Economist''; first as its deputy American editor, then as its South-east Asia correspondent, stationed in Bangkok. He then served as ''The Economist's'' Asia editor before taking on the post of Britain editor from 1997 to 2000. Following which he was stationed in Brussels where he penned the ''Charlemagne'' European-affairs column. At ''The Financial Times'', Rachman writes on international politics, with a particular stress on American foreign policy, the European Union and globalisation. Gideon Rachman maintains a (blog ) on the (FT.com ) site. == Views == Rachman is noted for adopting a sceptical view of the European Union. In 2002, he staged a debate in Prospect Magazine with Nick Clegg, who was later to become Britain's Deputy Prime Minister. Clegg argued strongly that Britain should join the European single currency. Rachman disagreed, writing that - "I believe the political changes involved in joining the Euro carry enormous risks. I do not believe it is 'progressive' or 'self-confident' to take those risks."〔(Nick Clegg: Is joining the euro still too big a risk for Britain?, ) ''Prospect'' (January 20, 2002). Retrieved 11 May 2014.〕 More recently, Rachman has argued in the FT that the Euro needs to be broken up. Rachman has twice endorsed Barack Obama for the presidency, although he has also argued that the president is vastly over-rated as a public speaker. He has also been sceptical of the case for intervention in Syria and argued that economics is a pseudo-science. In December 2008, Rachman published a controversial column in the Financial Times online entitled, "And now for a world government"〔 〕 which radio show host Alex Jones among others have cited as proof of an elitist plot to establish global governance. His brother is Tom Rachman, the author of the novel ''The Imperfectionists''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gideon Rachman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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