Richard Cockett (born 1961) is a British historian, journalist and author.
He is a regional editor of The Economist, with experience in Mexico, Central America, Africa and Singapore, and was previously a senior lecturer in politics and history at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Richard Cockett is the main recipient of the 2024 Bruno-Kreisky-Prize.
Works Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-revolution, 1931–1983. (HarperCollins, 1994). . Twilight of Truth: Chamberlain, Appeasement, and the Manipulation of the Press (St. Martin's Press, 1989) David Astor and The Observer (Andre Deutsch, 1990). New Left, New Right and Beyond. Taking the Sixties Seriously (with Geoff Andrews, Alan Hooper, Michael Williams) (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999). Sudan: Darfur and the failure of an African State. (Yale University Press, 2010). Blood, Dreams and Gold: The Changing Face of Burma. (Yale University Press, 2015). Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World. (Yale University Press, 2023).
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