| CONTENTS |
| Understanding Common History Ideas for Discussion |
| Paris and NATO |
| New Administrations, New Era? |
| Interest in Central Asia |
| Russia-ESCAP: New Horizons of Cooperation |
| American Economy Is Not Terminally Ill |
| The Echo of Tskhinval |
| Five Days that Changed the World |
| Everything Started with Kosovo... |
| Lost in Translation: Russia in the West's Perception |
| Culture as a Third Dimension of Foreign Policy |
| Federal Customs Service and the CIS |
| South Korea in 2008 |
| City Diplomacy |
| In Praise of Consensus |
| Diplomatic Relations between Russia and Romania: 130 Years Later |
| How Austria Became Neutral |
| The Scales/Libra |
| Encounters in the Americas - North and South |
| The Oriental Express with Stops in the West |
| The UN and Peacekeeping |
| Fiction Based on Plain Truth |
| V. N. Sofinsky (1924-2008) |
| Index to Volume 54 (Nos. 1-6) |