Volume 33
September/October 1998 · Number 5

Editorial

• Russia - A Prosperous Country, But When?

  Andreas Polkowski

Articles

• The Deceptive Allure of a Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement: A US Perspective

  Claude Barfield

• How Tensions between Specific Chinese and American Interests Affect China

  Indira Gurbaxani, Sonja Opper

• The Economic and Currency Crisis in South-East Asia - Was it Really so Unexpected?

  Marcus Cieleback

• A Politico-Economis View of the Debt-Servicing Capacity of Emerging Economies

  Arno Bäcker

• The East Asian Model and the Baltic States

  George J. Viksnins

Economic Trends

• Commodity Prices Continue to Fall

  Klaus Matthies