ROME: Talk of globalization, of a global economy, is unavoidable. But at the same time that the world witnessed the growth of this economy, …

CAMBRIDGE: Rich countries of the world give a considerable amount of foreign assistance to poorer countries every year, around $60 billion i…

CAMBRIDGE: The global financial crisis that recently brought the world economy to its knees appears to have abated. Time to reflect on how w…

ZURICH: Europe's new master and man of the future, Oskar Lafontaine, is man of the past. He is not of the comfortable center left that many …

WARSAW: Drunken, libertine priests: throughout the ages such images have been stock calumnies against the Catholic Church. No surprise, then…

NEW YORK: We hear much about the "new economy", based on networking and globalization. Is this "new economy" really new, or just the same ol…

NEW HAVEN: Asia’s leaders have finished their meeting in Kuala Lumpur with all sorts of promises. It is to be hoped that all have concluded,…

CAMBRIDGE: The divisions of income between the world’s rich and the poor are wider than at any time in world history. Rich countries, eager …

MOSCOW: First it was Yids (Jews). Then the Romanovs, the nobility, and the kulaks. After 1991, it was Lenin and the communists. Now, it seem…

PRAGUE: Does an intellectual - by virtue of his efforts to get below the surface of things, to grasp relations, causes and effects, to recog…

NEW HAVEN: Eleven countries within the EU are poised to merge their currencies forever into the euro. As that day approaches, are member gov…

CAMBRIDGE: Brazil survived its elections. President Cardoso has gotten his second term by the skin of his teeth, not with the mandate for wh…

CAMBRIDGE: The emerging markets crisis has jumped across the Atlantic Ocean, to engulf Brazil and several other Latin American countries. Fo…

LONDON: Britain’s Labour government reacted to the crisis in Kosovo by coming out in favour of a stronger defence role for the European Unio…

MUNICH: As turbulence mounts to Europe’s East and America’s West, the only region in the world that still retains a high degree of stability…

LONDON:The crises in southeast Asia, Russia, and Latin America are confronting the European single currency with its first major challenge. …

SAN FRANCISCO - Three elements combined to produce financial crisis in East Asian economies: stagnation in Japan, the pegging of exchange ra…

CAMBRIDGE: There was a clear mood of schadenfreude around the world last week when the U.S. hedge fund Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) c…

CAMBRIDGE: After World War II, Winston Churchill suffered a resounding defeat at the polls. In the long perspective of history, that setback…

A new session of the UN General Assembly has opened in New York. Talk of crisis abounds. The United States may be stripped of its vote for n…

WARSAW: Russia’s crisis has mesmerized and monopolized European affairs recently. Too much so, as other issues facing Eastern Europe, partic…

CAMBRIDGE: With the remarkable financial turbulence of recent months, many people are asking whether the world could somehow blunder into gl…

LONDON: Just over one hundred years ago, one of the nineteenth century's greatest novelists said: "It was wonderful to find America, but it …

NEW YORK: Even by Boris Yeltsin’s wayward standards, the last few weeks have been frantic. The Russian economy has cracked, as has the ruble…

CAMBRIDGE: Another crisis, another government. So sputters postcommunist Russia. By restoring Viktor Chernomyrdin as prime minister Boris Ye…