PRAGUE - Recently I tried to discover the origins of the name "Europe". To my surprise, many see its roots in the Akkadian word 'erebu', mea…

PRAGUE: One of the great European traditions -- a tradition forgotten through much of this century -- is the idea of the free citizen as the…

LONDON: It now looks likely that the European Union's plan for economic and monetary union (EMU) will start on time, January 1, 1999, with a…

WASHINGTON D.C.: Why are some nations rich and others poor? Why are per capita incomes in the poorest countries less than one-twentieth of t…

CHICAGO: Since 1989 Argentina has rapidly introduced revolutionary reforms that greatly reduced government regulations and controls. Privati…

WARSAW: Electoral fortunes in the transition countries now swing like a pendulum. Three years ago, there was a sharp tick to the left; now a…

KIEV: Today Russia and Ukraine are on parallel courses of economic reform. Both achieved financial stabilization during 1996, but each count…

PRAGUE - One feature that makes a human being human is awareness of his or her own dignity. This awareness may naturally take many forms in …

NEW HAVEN: Bill Clinton could not have asked for a better election year economy: unemployment averaging 5.2%, the lowest since 1973; 10.7 mi…

CAMBRIDGE: Now that President Yeltsin is reelected, will Russia grow? With a democratic government, highly educated workforce, vast natural …

HAMBURG: If reconciling contradictions is the art of politics, Chancellor Helmut Kohl is a gifted performer. For 14 years this former provin…

OXFORD: In the late 1960s Yehudi Menuhin dedicated a performance of Beethoven's violin concerto to "the indomitable and defiant spirit of ma…

BUDAPEST: Only by the skin of his teeth did Vaclav Klaus, the blunt proponent of a "market economy without adjectives," return to power in P…

PARIS: Save for the Netherlands, Europe's economies are languishing: according to the OECD, average growth in Western Europe will not exceed…

LONDON: Europe is heading for a showdown, with France and Germany on one side and Britain on the other, over the European Union's future. Cl…

WARSAW: If someone asked me to point to a decisive factor that helped build democracy and markets in Eastern Europe, I would jab my finger a…

HAMBURG: For most of President Clinton's watch the US was intent on staying out of international complications. Mr. Clinton's favorite use o…

LONDON: It is often said that the power of global financial markets far exceeds the mandate of any government. Left wing politicians everywh…

CAMBRIDGE: Today, worries about Brazil are as pervasive as they were about Mexico two years ago. But that does not mean that Latin America's…

BEIJING: The problems of China's huge state-owned industries (SOEs) lie half-remembered on the edge of public and political concern. Given t…

WASHINGTON D.C.: Some time in 1997 the North Atlantic Alliance is expected to offer NATO membership to some or all of the four "Visegrad" co…

PARIS: "Patriotism," Samuel Johnson once wrote, "is the last refuge of a scoundrel." The recent spat between Britain and the European Union …

HAMBURG: If the Balkan War had you worried about NATO’s ability to cope with conflict in Europe, you can, apparently, relax. Since NATO fina…

WARSAW: Before 1989, if anyone asked me what we Poles were striking and struggling for, the answer would have been so simple -- freedom. No …

STOCKHOLM: During the last two decades, Sweden lost its place among the world's rich countries. Swedish competitiveness eroded and income gr…