Introduction -- Sources of instability within and between PCE states -- The rights of minorities in Central & Eastern Europe -- Organised crime and corruption in Russia -- The drugs trade -- NATO's partnership for peace - prospects for Eurpean security -- Western policy responses -- Western economic aid -- The Baltic states -- Kaliningrad -- Ukraine -- Belarus -- Moldava -- The Caucasus -- Conflict, stability and development in Central Asia -- Poland -- Hungary -- Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Ruthenia -- Romania: traumatic past, uncertain future -- Bulgaria -- Albania -- The states of former Yugoslavia.