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
Three on Poland Three on Poland
In August 1980 the Gdansk shipyard workers astonished the world by winning the right to set up a genuinely independent labor union.
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Bad News for French Socialists Bad News for French Socialists
Toulouse, known as the cité rose because of the color of its walls, was the palest pink in October as the French Socialists held their congress there, the last before their...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The Mitterrand-Chirac-Barre Show The Mitterrand-Chirac-Barre Show
Most French voters, judging by opinion polls, are bored with the current presidential campaign. No wonder.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Revolutionary Nostalgia Revolutionary Nostalgia
Slogans sometimes succeed in conveying the mood of a period.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / 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
West and East West and East
In Maastricht twelve members of the European Community reached another stage on the road toward some form of union, notably with the pledge to introduce a common currency, the ec...
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Yeltsin’s Round Yeltsin’s Round
Nothing is over, not even the counting; given the prevailing mood of mutual suspicion there will be plenty of disputes over the final result.
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Yeltsin, the Lame-Duck Czar Yeltsin, the Lame-Duck Czar
Six months after the storming of Russia's Parliament, Boris Yeltsin and his backers, domestic and foreign, must have second thoughts about the wisdom of the coup that climaxed in...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Historic Moment Historic Moment
The meeting around a green table between representatives of Poland's ruling party and of Solidarity, scheduled for February 6, is a historic occasion. It marks a serious new atte...
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer