Edward Lucas (born 1962) is a British journalist.
Lucas is International Editor of The Economist, the London-based global newsweekly and also oversees the paper’s political coverage of Central and Eastern Europe. He has been covering the region of Europe since 1986, and was the Moscow bureau chief from 1998-2002, the central and east European correspondent.[1] He has also been the correspondent for The Independent and the BBC. Lucas is in addition a regular contributor to The Daily Mail, where he covers Russia- and CIS-related stories.
He was educated at Winchester College, the London School of Economics (and was a member of its University Challenge team in 1984) and studied Polish at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He has contributed to several books, including Why I am still an Anglican (Continuum 2006). His father is the Oxford philosopher John Lucas, and he is married to the columnist Cristina Odone.
Lucas's latest book, The New Cold War, appeared in 2008. Newsweek stated that "Lucas has built a very strong case for the prosecution. And, on all too many of the counts in his indictment, the defendant looks smugly guilty".[2] The Sunday Telegraph called it the best portrait to date of the mentality of Putin's ruling class.[3] The Independent wrote: "His book's urgency is fueled by the belief that, while the Russian bear has been sharpening its claws, the West has slept. Our first mistake, he argues, is ever to have regarded Russia as "normal". Our second has been to take our eyes off the ball, so obsessed with the "war on terror" that we have failed to understand the implications of Kremlin policy and pronouncements, as personified by Vladimir Putin."[4] The book received praise from Vladimir Bukovsky, Mart Laar and Oleg Gordievsky, and criticism from John Laughland and Alexander Zaitchik.[5][6] The book's 2009 edition contains more information on the Russia-Georgia War of 2008 and Russia's pipeline politics.[7]