Richard Cockett - Writer

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My name is Richard Cockett, and I am a writer, journalist (staff correspondent and editor for The Economist) and one-time academic. My latest book, Blood, Dreams and Gold, the Changing Face of Burma, is published by Yale in the autumn of 2015.

Blood, Dreams and Gold: The Changing Face of Burma
Sudan: Darfur and the Failure of an African State

Books

Browse through my previous books, associated articles and reviews

Blood, Dreams and Gold: The Changing Face of Burma
Sudan: Darfur and the failure of an African state
Anatomy of Decline: The Journalism of Peter Jenkins
Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-revolution 1931-1983
David Astor and the Observer
My Dear Max: The Letters of Brendan Bracken to Lord Beaverbrook, 1925-58
Twilight of Truth: Chamberlain, Appeasement and The Manipulation of the Press

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Burma

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15th October 2015

The long awaited “nationwide ceasefire agreement” has finally been signed, on October 15th. Except that it was by no means...

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