Stephan Richter

Director of the Global Ideas Center, a global network of authors and analysts, and Editor-in-Chief of The Globalist.

The Democrats, Viewed Globally

Was the multigenerational, multiracial and multiethnic Democratic convention a reflection America’s melting pot society?

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Tackling Too Big To Fail: The Most Important Rightsizing in U.S. History

Why is it taking so long to write and implement new U.S. financial reform regulations?

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How China’s Approach in Africa Complements the West’s

Can China’s market-building approach to Africa complement the West’s tradition democracy-building approach?

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Norbert Walter — An Appreciation

To Norbert Walter, Germany needed shaking up. Constantly. His presence in the debate over the country’s economic future will be sorely missed.

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Germany and China: The New Special Relationship

What is motivating Germany and China to pursue their new “strategic dialogue?”

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From Iraq to LIBOR: Excessive Risk-Taking and Democratic Accountability

What is it about U.S. and UK financial and foreign policy elites that has them engage so willingly in excessive risk-taking?

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How ASEAN Should Assert Itself Globally

Should Westerners abandon the use of business jacket and tie for the sake of global warming?

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The United States in Egypt: A Fully Hedged Position

How is Washington simultaneously pursuing democratization and a restoration of military rule in Egypt?

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The German Strategy on the Euro: A Pre-Summit Roadmap

How does Germany see its role, and what are its real intentions and specific plans, with regard to saving the euro?

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U.S. Health Care: An Exercise in Stalinist Industrial Economics?

Isn’t it time for the United States to find a more efficient economic model for managing health care?

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