Richard Cockett
{{short description|British historian and journalist (born 1961)}}
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Richard Cockett (born 1961){{cite web |url=http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cats/1/2828.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031117181723/http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cats/1/2828.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 November 2003 |title=Richard Cockett|accessdate=27 July 2014 |publisher=British Library of Political and Economic Science}} is a British historian, journalist{{cite magazine|url=https://mediadirectory.economist.com/people/richard-cockett/|title=Richard Cockett|type=profile|magazine=The Economist|access-date=1 December 2023}} and author.
He is a regional editor of The Economist, with experience in Mexico, Central America, Africa{{cite web |url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/author/richard-cockett|title=Richard Cockett|type=profile|publisher=openDemocracy}} and Singapore. He was previously a senior lecturer in politics and history at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Works
- Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-revolution, 1931–1983. (HarperCollins, 1994). {{ISBN|978-0-00-223672-0}}.
- Twilight of Truth: Chamberlain, Appeasement, and the Manipulation of the Press (St. Martin's Press, 1989) {{ISBN|978-0-312-03140-4}}
- David Astor and The Observer (Andre Deutsch, 1990). {{ISBN|978-0-233-98735-4}}
- New Left, New Right and Beyond. Taking the Sixties Seriously (with Geoff Andrews, Alan Hooper, Michael Williams) (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999). {{ISBN|978-0-333-74147-4}}
- Sudan: Darfur and the failure of an African State. (Yale University Press, 2010). {{ISBN|978-0-300-16273-8}}
- Blood, Dreams and Gold: The Changing Face of Burma. (Yale University Press, 2015). {{ISBN|978-0-300-20451-3}}
- Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World. (Yale University Press, 2023). {{ISBN|978-0-300-26653-5}}
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External links
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Category:British male journalists
Category:British economics writers
Category:Academics of Royal Holloway, University of London
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
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