Contents: Mission Accomplished? The Implications of 'Ideology' for American Foreign Policy; United Europe: An American Idea?; German-American Relations: The Challenge Ahead; The American Movie and Television Industry: A Model for Germany?; Reaganomics and Competitiveness: Lessons for Germany and European Industrial Policy; Fiscal Policy in the United States: An Informal Presentation and Some Results from Time Series Analysis; Some Thoughts on the Use and Abuse of Criminal Law as a Weapon in the War on Drugs; Are Blacks and Women More Equal than White Men? The Setting of Environmental and Health Standards; Regulation Versus Antitrust Laws; Germany and the Gulf Conflict.