| CONTENTS |
| Is the World Becoming Multipolar? A Roundtable Discussion |
| Results of 1997: No Dramatic Upheavals |
| NATO Moving East: The Aftertaste |
| Russia and Security Problems in the Baltics |
| Eliminating Chemical Weapons |
| Developing Relations with ASEAN |
| Russia and the Philippines:A Convergence of Destinies |
| Opening the Dialogue |
| ASEAN Policy Towards Russia |
| Contrary to Pessimistic Forecasts |
| Russia's Regions and Transborder Cooperation |
| Black Sea Economic Cooperation |
| Understanding the Russian Revolution |
| The 1917 Revolution and International Law |
| Drug Problems of Colombia |
| Russia and the Baltics: Times Bygone |
| The Best Is the Enemy of the Good |
| How Britain and France Tried to Divide Russia in 1917 |
| General Ignatiev and the Treaty of San Stefano |
| Peter the Great's Grand Embassy |
| The Tree of Life |