Chinese Riot Police in Sichuan Province in 2008. Source: AFP Most communist regimes (most dictatorships for that matter) have been swept away by history, usually when they failed to deliver the goods … more →
Scherblogrscher wrote 7 months ago: Chinese Riot Police in Sichuan Province in 2008. Source: AFP Most communist regimes (most dictatorsh … more →
rscher wrote 8 months ago: President Obama announces his Af-Pak Initiative. Source: CNN Portrait of Prince Metternich Source: W … more →
rscher wrote 8 months ago: Admiral Timothy Keating, head of U.S. Pacific Command. Source: CNN Obama Administration: Please … more →
rscher wrote 8 months ago: Source: The Economic Times Serious setbacks in U.S. economic performance are convincing highly-tra … more →
rscher wrote 8 months ago: The G-20 is the forum of the future. See its web site at http://www.g20.org/. When the internationa … more →
rscher wrote 8 months ago: The IMF has been stepping up to help solve the global financial crisis. Only a few years ago, it wa … more →
rscher wrote 8 months ago: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, Source: Wikipedia The IMF, … more →
rscher wrote 8 months ago: With this post, I launch a discussion of two issues in American foreign policy relevant to the Risin … more →
rscher wrote 8 months ago: President Lula and his choice to succeed him, Dilma Rousseff. Source: O Globo How long are they? … more →
rscher wrote 9 months ago: Source: BBC Is the conflict over Kashmir hindering India’s rise? Is an unstable Pakistan, with … more →
rscher wrote 9 months ago: One way for an aspiring power to avoid the hard work of building a formidable economic base upon whi … more →
rscher wrote 9 months ago: One of the historic strengths of the U.S. economy has been its flexibility. Dust bowl migrants relo … more →
rscher wrote 9 months ago: Given the rise of new powers in the world and America’s relative decline, do the neo-cons in the Rep … more →
rscher wrote 9 months ago: The recession this year may not in fact be global. Planet Earth could possibly squeak by with sligh … more →
rscher wrote 9 months ago: China’s rise has been export-driven, like Japan’s and Korea’s before it. China took note during the … more →
rscher wrote 10 months ago: By Roger M. Scher January 25, 2008 …if your empire had been dismantled and your great nation humi … more →
rscher wrote 1 year ago: Originally published October 21, 2008 Obama and the Democrats are on a roll. Could be a l … more →
rscher wrote 1 year ago: If there is anything that government should do, it is this bank bailout proposed by Trea … more →
rscher wrote 1 year ago: The Democratic and Republican National Conventions which ended last week were strikingly similar. B … more →