ALAN B. SHERR is Associate Director of the Center for Foreign Policy Development at Brown University.IVAN KOROLEV is Deputy Director of the Institute for World Economy and International Relations of the USSR Academy of Sciences.IGOR FAMINSKY is Director of the All-Union Research Institute for Foreign Economic Relations of the State Foreign Economics Commission of the USSR Council of Ministers.TATYANA M. ARTEMOVA is Leading Research Fellow at the All-Union Research Institute for Foreign Economic Relations, State Foreign Economics Commission of the USSR Council of Ministers.EVGENIYA L. YAKOVLEVA is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for World Economy and International Relations of the USSR Academy of Sciences.