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
The Ghosts of Nationalism The Ghosts of Nationalism
The specter haunting Europe today, as it approaches the twenty-first century, is the ghost of nineteenth-century nationalism.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Yeltsin’s Elections Yeltsin’s Elections
This issue also featured contributions from Boris Kagarlitsky and Aleksandr Likhotal under the same headline.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Jaruzelski Sends in the Tanks Jaruzelski Sends in the Tanks
Sunday, December 13, order reigned in Warsaw. Martial law had been proclaimed. Tanks patrolled the streets of the capital.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Gdansk Showdown Gdansk Showdown
In the medieval city of Gdansk, in a courtroom packed with police, three men stand in the dock.
Jan 2, 1998 / Editorial / Daniel Singer
What Price Gloire What Price Gloire
The only free Kanaks are dead ones, the outgoing French government might have argued.
Jan 2, 1998 / Editorial / Daniel Singer
Europe in the Post-Yalta Era Europe in the Post-Yalta Era
History knows no neat radical breaks.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Death in Vilnius Death in Vilnius
At stake in the drama now unfolding in Vilnius is not just the fate of Lithuania or the Baltic States but the destinies of Mikhail Gorbachev and perestroika and the immediate f...
Jan 2, 1998 / Editorial / Daniel Singer
Bad Memories Bad Memories
France is still feeling the shock of a legal decision destined to induce collective amnesia.
Jan 2, 1998 / Editorial / Daniel Singer
Ciao, Baby Ciao, Baby
At the news that in Rome well over a third of the electorate voted for Gianfranco Fini, leader of the neo-Fascist M.S.I.
Jan 2, 1998 / Editorial / Daniel Singer