Includes index.

Challenge of transition /Regina Cowen Karp -- Post-communist countries : challenges and problems / Adam Bromke -- Regional organizations and ethnic conflict / Jennone Walker -- Poland : national security in a changing environment / Hieronim Kubiak -- Czech and Slovak republics: security consequences of the breakup of the CSFR / Jan Urban -- Hungary : defining the boundaries of security / Pal Dunay -- Creating security in the Balkans / Daniel N. Nelson -- Former Yugoslavia : emerging security orientations / F. Stephen Larrabee -- Russia : security in transition / Alexander Konovalov -- Security issues in Ukraine and Belarus / Kathleen Mihalisko -- CIS : sources of stability and instability / Caroline Kennedy-Pipe -- Baltic states : quo vadis? / Peter Vares and Mare Haab