All the ingredients are apparently there, but somehow the mayonnaise does not bind.

Back in Warsaw after my trip to Gdansk, I talk about the economy with the outgoing government’s spokesman on reform. He is more specific on what is to be done than on how it should be achieved.

“Havel to the castle”: In the doubly festive mood just before Christmas the heart of Prague was full of posters bearing that slogan and a picture of Vaclav Havel, the famous playwright, his shi

The specter haunting Europe today, as it approaches the twenty-first century, is the ghost of nineteenth-century nationalism.

Western Europe is looking into an uncertain future. The German election, which was supposed to clear the horizon, has really obstructed the view.

Hardly had the Nobel Peace Prize committee announced that Solidarity leader Lech Walesa was its 1983 laureate but President Reagan and other cold warriors began praising the choice as another

Although Sartre may be out of fashion, political co-existentialism is the main subject of speculation in Paris.

Long live the Revolution–as long as it is dead and buried with no prospect of resurrection. That thought springs to mind as the French begin to celebrate the bicentennial of their Great Revol

“Is the Communist Party of the Soviet Union still the ruling party, the political vanguard of the people? . . . Should there be a multiparty system? Does the C.P.S.U.