| Back | Search Results - New Search |
Sommers: Neoliberalism and the "Axis of Evil"
Commentary, July, 11 2002
Jeffrey Sommers
Sommers's ZSpace page
President George Bush's first State of the Union Address listed Iran, Iraq, and North Korea as an "axis of evil." No doubt many states commit evil by employing violence to achieve their ends. Yet, while the above-mentioned three have particularly ...
Sommers: Blowback
Commentary, September, 12 2001
Jeffrey Sommers
Sommers's ZSpace page
In CIA parlance missions that are ÒsuccessfulÓ create backlashes. The CIA aptly calls this ÒBlowback.Ó
Sommers: Small States and Neoliberalism: LatviaÕs
Commentary, January, 02 2001
Jeffrey Sommers
Sommers's ZSpace page
The time is long overdue for a reassessment of LatviaÕs economic development. A decade after economic reforms, and nine years after independence, in Orwellian fashion this Baltic nationÕs failures are somehow presented as achievements, as was the ...
Sommers: Small States and Neoliberalism: Latvia’s
Commentary, January, 02 2001
Jeffrey Sommers
Sommers's ZSpace page
The time is long overdue for a reassessment of Latvia’s economic development. A decade after economic reforms, and nine years after independence, in Orwellian fashion this Baltic nation’s failures are somehow presented as achieveme...
Sommers: Report from Kiev
Commentary, November, 20 2000
Jeffrey Sommers
Sommers's ZSpace page
I am in Kiev as the pampered guest of a Baltic offshore company which helps CIS nations avoid taxation by incorporating in the Channel Islands, Cyprus, the Cayman Islands, or even the USÕs own outlaw banking state of Delaware. Granted, many of the...
Sommers: Understanding the March 26th Russian Election
Commentary, March, 23 2000
Jeffrey Sommers
Sommers's ZSpace page
Russian democracy rode high in the late 1980s and into the early 1990s. Glasnost created a genuine culture of citizen participation in political life. Sterile arguments remain over whether this was done to preserve communism or tear it down. Whate...
