Articles

The Last Superpower The Last Superpower

The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, held in Paris at the end of November, might best be described by reversing Tolstoy's title. This was Peace and War.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Solidarity Lost Solidarity Lost

On December 9, after a second ballot, Lech Walesa, the former electrician from the Lenin Shipyards, will be the President of the Polish Republic.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

The Gladiators The Gladiators

In order to perpetuate capitalism as the final stage of history, Washington has less Hegelian means at its disposal than Francis Fukuyama suggested.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

Poland Chooses–What’s at Stake Poland Chooses–What’s at Stake

There seem to be a large measure of agreement between Walesa and Mazowiecki over fundamental economic policy.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer and Lawrence Goodwyn

The New Holy Alliance The New Holy Alliance

The balance of power in international relations shifts slowly.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Creeping Capitalism Creeping Capitalism

Europe's landscape is changing--dramatically in its Eastern half, which is groping toward capitalism, and less spectacularly in the Western part, which is on the road to a sin...

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Herr Kohl’s New Economic Order Herr Kohl’s New Economic Order

Nineteen ninety-three, with its single market and its important steps toward monetary and political union, was to have been Europe's momentous A 1 year.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Western Front Western Front

Fundamentalism is spreading westward; now it has invaded the Maghreb. The results of Algeria's June 12 local elections, in which the Islamic Salvation Front (F.J.S.) won more ...

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

The Perils of Perestroika The Perils of Perestroika

Is Mikhail Gorbachev, for all his vast presidential powers and commanding leadership of the Communist Party, merely to be a transitional ruler of the Soviet Union? If so, a tra...

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Silent Reproach Silent Reproach

Some events carry an exceptional symbolic charge.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

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