European Monetary Union (EMU) is on its way. At the recent Madrid summit a framework for the changeover was decided. EMU starts in January…

CAMBRIDGE: If opinion polls are right, Russia's people are poised to deliver Russia's government a stinging rebuke in December's Duma electi…

WARSAW: The safe prediction about the presidency of Aleksander Kwasniewski is that predictions will be unsafe. The politician in Mr Kwasniew…

PARIS: Democracies are often guilty of doing "too little, too late" in the face of new challenges. Unlike dictatorships, the democratic proc…

KIEV: Throughout the post-communist world, crime emerges as the greatest public concern, after inflation has been brought under control. Man…

HAMBURG: How does citizen protest and government action relate in modern democracies? Those seeking an answer may find it in the recent inte…

CAMBRIDGE: Europe is on an upswing in growth and euphoria. But how long can this last? Showing the nervousness to be expected of a new recru…

PARIS: French author Alexis de Tocqueville was 30 when he wrote, in 1835, after a long trip to the US, this page of his Democracy in America…

MOSCOW: President Yeltsin’s long expected threat in mid-October to fire his longest serving minister, Andrei Kozyrev, incited concern all ov…

WASHINGTON D.C.: Since the demise of the Soviet Union, the Islamic Republic of Iran has aggressively fostered a new set of regional alliance…

Remember Mikhail Gorbachev? These days, Gorbachev runs a foundation, based in San Francisco, which runs well-meaning conferences about worl…

CAMBRIDGE: Competition is the root of progress -- all economics are built on that notion. From America to China, throughout the transition e…

LONDON: Is the world economy on the brink of another recession like the sudden slump of 1990, which threw 20 million workers out of their jo…

KIEV: A contradictory development is taking place in the post-communist world. While Marxist ideas are considered outdated, one post-communi…

CAMBRIDGE: In elections last March, Estonia’s reform government was rudely toppled from power by a left-leaning coalition. In light of its a…

WASHINGTON: Suddenly, after endlessly debating the Eastward extension of Nato and the European Union, political leaders in Bonn, Paris and L…

Ever since the U.S.S.R's voluntary retreat from its East and Central European empire three years ago, the issue of Russian relations with…

Russia’s attack on the Chechen nation surprised those who thought that the Russian Federation had become a liberal democracy. The Russian bo…

WASHINGTON: For over a month now, I have been working at one of the best-known American think tanks, the Carnegie Endowment for Internationa…