Daniel Kempton is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at Northern Illinois University./e He has published widely on Russian politics and related topics.Terry Clark is an associate professor of political science and director of the graduate program in internationl relations at Creighton University./e He has published extensively on emerging democratic institutions in post-communist Europe.

• Center-Periphery Relations and Their Importance for the Successor States by Terry D. Clark and Daniel R. Kempton Part I The Challenges to Assessing Federalism in Russia by Daniel R. Kempton Komi and Russia: The Development of Regional Politics by James Alexander Bargaining with Moscow: The Case of Sakha by Daniel R. Kempton Negotiating Autonomy for Tatarstan and Chechnya by Ann E. Robertson The Kaliningrad Oblast--A Troublesome Excalve by Ingmar Oldberg Federal Reform and Resource Conflict: The Nenets Autonomous Okrug? by Helge Blakkisrud Assessing Russia's Evolution to Federalism by Danieal R. Kempton Part II Studying Local Politics in the Former Soviet Union by Terry D. Clark Regionalism in Post-Soviet Ukraine by Paul Kubicek Center-Periphery Relations in Lithuania: National-Local Links in Lithuaniar by Terry D. Clark Central Power and Regional and Local Government in Uzbekistan by Lawrence R. Robertson and Roger D. Kangas Identity/Difference in Central Asia: Tribes, Clans, and Mahalla by Anthony Bichel Conclusions and Assessments: Strategies in Center-Periphery Relations by Daniel R. Kempton and Terry D. Clark Index