The lost equilibrium : international relations in the post-Soviet era / ed. by Bettie M. Smolansky and Oles M. Smolansky.

Introduction: interesting times -- The CIA and the Soviet Union: the politics of getting it wrong / Melvin A. Goodman -- Latin America and Russia after the Cold War / W. Raymond Duncan -- Sub-Saharan Africa after the Cold War / Marina Ottaway -- The Middle East after the Soviet Union / Henri J. Barkey -- After the Cold War: relationships in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf regions / Stephen Page -- In the shadow of Soviet collapse: South Asia without superpower competition / Shirin Tahir-Kheli -- Russia and northeast Asia / Charles E. Ziegler -- Resting on its laurels: the West faces the East / Stephen Blank -- The logic of NATOenlargement: denationalization, democratization, defense of human rights, and denuclearization / Christopher Jones -- Ukraine's economic dependence on Russia: fuel, credit, and trade / Oles M. Smolansky -- On Russian-American relations / Henry Trofimenko -- "Blurred focus": U.S. policy toward Russia in the Yeltsin era/ Harvey Sicherman -- Conclusion: lessions from a system in transition.