SHARYL CROSS is Assistant Professor of Political Science at San Jose State University in California.MARINA A. OBOROTOVA is senior fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and served as Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

• Preface The New Chapter: Opportunities and Challenges by Sharyl Cross and Marina A. Oborotova Bilateral Arms Reductions and the Search for Stability: A Negotiator's Perspective by Igor Neverov U.S.-Russian Cooperation for Nonproliferation by William C. Potter Challenges of Military-Civilian Conversion: U.S. and Russian Experiences by Konstantin E. Sorokin and Constantine P. Danopoulos American-Russian Economic Relations in the Post-Cold War Era by Deborah Anne Palmieri The New Agenda for U.S.-Russian Relations: Economic Partnership by Andrei Kolosovsky and Vadim Udalov New Prospects for Mutually Beneficial Cooperation in Geology and Mining by Nikolay F. Chelishchev New Directions in U.S. Environmental Relations with Russia by Barbara Jancar-Webster New Russia and the United States: Prospects for Cooperation in Human Rights by Igor A. Zevelev Balkan Triangle: Washington, Moscow, Belgrade by Robin Alison Remington Prospects for U.S.-Russian Cooperation in the Middle East by Fred Wehling Dynamics of National Independence in Central Asia: Implications for Russo-American Cooperation by Gregory Gleason Selected Bibliography Index