International influences and democratic transition - problems of theory and practice in linkage politics, Geoffrey Pridham; the international context of democratic transition - a comparative framework, Geoffrey Pridham; international relations and democratic transition, Gerald Segal; democracy by convergence and Southern Europe - a comparative politics perspective, Laurence Whitehead; the international context of democratic transition in postwar Italy - a case of penetration, Robert Leonardi; Portugal - a case study of international determinants of regime transition, Walter C.Opello; state-international systems interaction and the Greek transition to democracy in the mid-1970s, Susannah Verney and Theodore Couloumbis; Spain's transition - domestic and external linkages, Jonathan Story and Benny Pollack; the international context of democratic transition in Turkey, Ali L.Karaosmanoglu; US policy towards democratic transition in Southern Europe, Alfred Tovias; transition to democracy and European integration - the role of interest groups in Southern Europe, Dusan Sidjanski; the politics of the European Community, transnational networks and democratic transition in Southern Europe, Geoffrey Pridham.