Commentary

When Czechoslovakia split in half on New Year's Day of 1993, Slovakia's jubilant nationalist leaders

Negotiating liberal air service trade with Japan is like climbing Mount Everest - the most difficult

Reduced copper buying from Southeast Asian countries because of a tumble in the local currencies aga

The U.S. trade deficit rose from $61 billion in 1993 to $94 billion in 1996, and will see a record o

A large clock in front of Paris' Pompidou Center ticks off the seconds to the year 2000.Mill

The World Bank, at this week's meeting in Hong Kong, will attempt to explain what it and other devel

An alliance of conservative parties unseated the ex-Communists from power in Poland's general electi

Americans smugly shake off charges of colonialism raised in dusty U.N. sessions, having only dabbled

Everything's coming up roses. The world economy is expanding faster than at any other time in the la

It's bad news that global warming is coming to get us if we don't stop burning fossil fuels in our c

They are unwieldy, hard to enforce and usually deemed a failure. Yet sanctions aimed at punishing fo

In retrospect, it is easy to see that all the warning signs of an impending crisis in Southeast Asia

Beijing lobs shells across the Taiwan Straits, disrupts international meetings over semantics and re

Trade is tough. Even in the best of times, it is not easy to convince most countries to open their m

Watch for the proposed Ocean Shipping Reform Act to start mov- ing out of the Senate berth where

Call it classic free enterprise if you like, but there are real dangers to the eating classes in the

All of the controversy surrounding the NAACP's recent debate over school desegregation missed the re

To commemorate its 50th anniversary, the CIA this week is unveiling an intriguing exhibit of Cold Wa

As the Clinton administration asks Congress for a renewal of fast-track authority in negotiating int

Finance Minister P. Chidambaram wants to bring India's budget deficit down to 4.5 percent of gross d

With at least $200 billion at stake, the ''stranded cost recovery'' bailout demanded by electric pow

Since gaining its independence in 1991, the former Soviet Republic of Kazakstan has been working har

The Clinton administration's bill to establish a new grant of ''fast track'' trade authority constra

Brazil's highly successful privatization of its Santos container terminal this week underscores anew

The Internal Revenue Service follows certain patterns in selecting returns to audit.The best

Career bureaucrats in Japan wield more power than elected politicians today, in contrast to the Unit

From a distance, it looks like a straightforward debate over spending priorities: Should the governm

The European Union is about to authorize another round of shipbuilding subsidies and, thanks to the

A few weeks ago Commerce Secretary William Daley raised a few eyebrows, if not hackles.The U

Rep. Bud Shuster, R-Pa., has blinked and taxpayers are the beneficiary.Mr. Shuster agreed Tu

On Tuesday, President Clinton formally kicked off his administration's long-awaited campaign for fas

FOSTERING OPENTRADING SYSTEMSSusan Aaronson is right to lay out a commonsense case why Congr

Many investors missed warning signs that preceded the wave of currency devaluations seen this summer

CONFUSION REIGNSABOUT CUBA BUSINESS I am writing to offer a clarification regarding statemen

Call it what you want. A war between an upstart politician on the make vs. an entrenched Senate cran

In recent weeks, two views have emerged on the current state of the economy and whether it has chang

If you use electronic mail, you've probably received it.It comes unannounced and usually unw

Republicans have tried for years to overhaul the tax code. Yet when given their first opportunity in

In the short run, the fallout from rapidly changing technology will be an environment where plants a

Remember July's historic balanced-budget agreement? Bud Shuster apparently cannot. The Pennsylvania