Contact

Michael Schneider-Christians
3306 SE 22nd Avenue
Cape Coral, FL 33904 USA
PH: 239-549-9993
FX: 239-549-6659
Cell/SMS: 239-851-3975
Michael@Schneider-Christians.com

Daily Analysis

• Drawing Down in Afghanistan

  The Pentagon's plan for an end to U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan by the end of 2013 has drawn familiar battle lines in the public debate over the proper endgame for the war.

  
  

Articles

• Foreign Policy and Obama's State of the Union Address

  James M. Lindsay discusses the political calculations behind President Obama's State of the Union address.

  
  

• Both Sides of the COIN

  Abandoning counterinsurgency doctrine after Afghanistan would doom the U.S. military to irrelevance and impotence, writes Christopher Sims and Fernando Luján. Not so, says Bing West; like it or not, the United States will be much less ambitious in future wars.

  
  

• How We Got Here

  Selections from the Foreign Affairs archives tracing the ideological battles of the past century and the evolution of the modern order.

  
  

• Making Modernity Work

  Today's troubles are real, but not ideological: they relate more to policies than to principles. The postwar order of mutually supporting liberal democracies with mixed economies solved the central challenge of modernity, reconciling democracy and capitalism. The task now is getting the system back into shape.

  
  

• The Future of History

  Stagnating wages and growing inequality will soon threaten the stability of contemporary liberal democracies and dethrone democratic ideology as it is now understood. What is needed is a new populist ideology that offers a realistic path to healthy middle-class societies and robust democracies.

  
  

Michael started teaching and speaking by being invited by fellow REALTORS to share his experiences on certain topics, like:

International Real Estate, Personal Marketing, marketing Fine Homes and Estates and Traits of a Successful Realtor.

Michael was then invited to do some speaking to agents of other CENTURY 21 offices and at international CENTURY 21 conventions.

Michael was a 3 time speaker at Florida Sun Magazine seminar weekends in Germany and Switzerland.  He was the speaker for the topic of Florida Real Estate.

A few years ago Michael got involved with Junior Achievement and has taught at Cape Coral High School and is teaching annually at Gulf Middle School in Cape Coral.  In the spring of 2009 Michael will teach two 8th grage classes at Gulf Middle.  He also speaks to high school seniors about the choice to become a Realtor as a first profession directly out of high school.

Michael also entered the "education" field of the Renaissance Academy of the Florida Gulf Coast University with presentations of his important and very informative topic: The Emerging World - Opportunity or Threat?  Michael will speak about the political party system in Germany in comparison to the USA system in the 2009/2010 season.