| CONTENTS |
| Soviet Foreign Policy as a Factor Promoting the Revolutionary Transformation of the World |
| The Nationality Question and the Formation of the Soviet State |
| The UN and the Security of Nations |
| The Capitalist Economy: A Crisis Spiral |
| Peking and the "Third World" |
| Japan: A New Stage in Policy |
| DIPLOMATIC PRACTICE: FORMS AND METHODS |
| BEFORE THE GREAT ORDEAL |
| IDEOLOGICAL CONFRONTATION OF THE TWO SYSTEMS |
| SOVIET-FRENCH COOPERATION GROWS DEEPER |
| A DIPLOMAT OF THE LENINIST SCHOOL |
| DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: CONTRADICTIONS OF INDUSTRIALISATION ON THE CAPITALIST PATH |
| What Is Behind the Armed Forces Reform in the USA |
| Some Problems of International Shipping |
| LATIN AMERICA ASSERTS ITSELF |
| Scientific Foundation of Socialist Diplomacy |
| The Legal Status of the Representatives of States at International Bodies |
| Advice to a Fellow-Traveller |
| "East-West" Trade: Problems and Prospects |
| In the Vice of the Monopolies |
| Robbery Under the Guise of Cooperation |
| M. A. Ananyev, "Invisible Export" and International Relations |
| John Badgley, Asian Developments: Problems and Prognosis |
| FACTS AND FIGURES |
| List of Articles Published in International Affairs in 1972 |