Stephan Richter

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

Italy’s Fateful Choice

Is Italy in danger of finding itself outside the umbrella of nations Germany and its partners are willing to support?

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France’s Epoch-Making Choice

Will Francois Hollande choose to make France like Germany or to make France like Italy?

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Bureaucracy as a Root of American Prosperity

Remember how the U.S. government blazed the trail of innovation, societal progress and modernization in the United States?

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The Editor and His Dog: A Tribute

What’s a writer to do when he’s looking for the next great idea or opening line?

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The United States and the EU: Capitalisms Compared

Which model of corporate governance is doing a better job of striking a balance between the needs of business and the need of society, the U.S.’s or the EU’s?

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Martin Luther and the Eurozone: Theology as an Economic Destiny?

Could Martin Luther’s life have provided a suitable rule of thumb to identify which countries should be in the eurozone and which should not?

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The Tragedy of Turkish Food

How might Turkey’s relations with Europe be different if it had engaged in food diplomacy?

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After the French Elections: The Potential Benefits of Hollande

With the election of François Hollande, could France be in for a repeat of its transformative early-1980s experience?

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Benjamin Franklin, America’s First Franchiser?

Discover how the polymath and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin gave shape to one of America’s most potent business concepts.

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Domestic Incapacitation and Foreign Policymaking

Has the world reached a point where all major nations are too troubled at home to engage meaningfully in foreign policy?

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