Part 1 Military security issues: challenges to the nuclear orthodoxy, David H.Dunn; conventional forces, Colin McInnes; the use of force, Christoph Bluth. Part 2 Wider security questions: from conformity to confrontation - arms control, Mark Hoffman; the costs of defence, Paul Laurent; policies towards Northern Ireland, Ian Kearns. Part 3 Areas of foreign policy: nostalgic isolationism - policies towards Europe 1979-1990, Philip Acton and Simon Crowe; the Anglo-American security relationship, Wyn Rees; perceptions of the Soviet threat, Nicholas J.Wheeler; relations with the South, Joanna Spear. Part 4 Conclusion: stocktaking after the Cold War, Stuart Croft.