Part 1 Essays: the rise and decline of the CIS, William Miller; nuclear arms control after the Moscow coup, Ivo H. Daalder; the European Community and the Yugoslav crisis, John Zametica; a North American community "from the Yukon to the Yucatan", Alan K. Henrikson; the Maastricht negotiations, Jennone Walker; German union at second glance, Flora Lewis; US-Japan trade - the never ending negotiations, Alan William Wolff and Thomas A. Kalil; the Philippine base negotiations, Richard L. Armitage; developments in North-South Korean negotiations, Richard A. Scalapino; America and the Cambodian peace negotiations, Robert G. Sutter; the road to Madrid, Martin Indyk; the Central American peace process, Thomas Dodd; choosing the world's top diplomat, Donald McHenry. Part 2 Departments: looking ahead - diplomatic challenges of 1993, Stephen Kramer; diplomatic chronology (July 1991-June 1992), Brett Parker.