Central and Eastern Europe : the global context /William E. Griffith -- Eastern Europe and the West in the perspective of time / Vojtech Mastny -- The economies and trade of Eastern Europe / Paul Marer -- Technology transfer to Eastern Europe : paradoxes, policies, prospects / Angela Stent -- The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe : new prospects and old dilemmas / John Van Oudenaren -- The Soviets, the Warsaw Pact, and the Eastern European militaries / Dale R. Herspring -- Human rights and civil society in Eastern Europe / Robert Sharlet -- The future of Poland : Perestroika or perpetual crisis? / Sarah Meiklejohn Terry -- Reforming communist systems : lessons from the Hungarian experience / Charles Gati -- Czechoslovakia between East and West / H. Gordon Skilling -- Yugoslavia : worsening economic and nationalist crisis / Viktor Meier -- Conservatism and nationalism in the Balkans : Albania, Bulgaria, and Romania / J.F. Brown -- The German Democratic Republic / William E. Griffith -- West German policy toward Central and Eastern Europe / Wolfgang Berner and William E. Griffith -- French policy toward Central and Eastern Europe / Dominique Moïsi -- The United States and Eastern Europe : a window of opportunity / Michael Mandelbaum -- U.S. and Western policy -- new opportunities for action / Mark Plamer -- Central and Eastern Europe, Perestroika, and the future of the cold war / Seweryn Bialer.