The Globalist

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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