• Part 1 Introduction: the case for a Russian-US security community, Fred Charles Ikle. Part 2 Regime transition - from Cold War to co-operative security: history accelerates - the diplomacy of co-operation and fragmentation, William W. Newmann; Moscow's nationalities problem - the collapse of empire and the challenges ahead, Daria Fane; a national security policy for Russia, Sergey Rogov; the making of a Russian foreign policy, Mikhail Bezrukov; issues and images - Washington and Moscow in great power politics, David Kaiser. Part 3 Military power and international stability: theatre forces in the Commonwealth of Independent States, Edward Atkeson; US theatre forces in the year 2000, Edward Atkeson; high technology after the Cold War, Benoit Morl; the metastable peace - a catastrophe theory model of US-Russian relations, Irving Lachow. Part 4 Building a new security relationship: building a Eurasian-Atlantic security community - co-operative management of the military transition, William W. Newmann and Judyth L. Twigg; defence planning - the potential for transparency and co-operation, Judyth L. Twigg; containing destabilizing military techologies, James Macintosh; some limits on co-operation and transparency operational security and the use of force, William W. Newmann.

'Immensely valuable'John Baylis, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, International Affiars, Vol. 70, No. 1, January 1994