Stephan Richter

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

Financial Markets as Drug Pushers

Could the misdeeds of markets cause a rupture in the acceptance of market institutions?

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Is the CEO of Whole Foods Nuts?

Why are libertarian policy solutions woefully inadequate in an increasingly complex world?

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Occupy Wall Street and America’s Un-Representative Democracy

How do Egyptians, Iranians and Chinese look at the way U.S. authorities are handling the Wall Street protests?

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The New German Dialectic

Can Angela Merkel make the case for Germany to lead a deeper European integration process?

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U.S. Message to the BRICS: No More Mr. Nice Guy

Is “soft power” just a friendlier-sounding way for the United States to dominate the world?

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Turning Toward Asia? A Reality Check for Hillary Clinton

Is boastful U.S. rhetoric indicative of a desire to cling to a world that is no longer in reach?

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Occupy Wall Street and the Missing American Revolution

What is the historic context and potential significance of the protest movement directed against Wall Street?

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A Preview of the French Elections: The Benefits of Hollande

Could it be that France is in for a repeat of its transformative early 1980s experience?

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German Liberals’ Last Dance?

Will Germany have a nationwide CSU at last — in the form of the FDP?

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Will Europe Rise to the Occasion?

How successfully is Europe coping with its unprecedented fiscal challenges?

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