• Introductory Comments by Phil Scanlan, Amos Jordan – 1
  • Friends and Allies in the Post Cold War by Zelman Cowen – with supporting comments by Ambassador Melvin J Sembler and welcome by Les Hollings – 2
  • Australian American Relations After the Cold War by James A Kelly – 11

THE SOVIET UNION AND EASTERN EUROPE

  • The Communist World in Crisis: Promise or Chaos? By Alexander Dallin – 23
  • The Baltic Crisis by William Maley – 34
  • A Look Inside Mikhail Gorbachev’s Kremlin by Vitali Vitaliev, introduction by Bob Carr – 43

THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE GULF

  • The Gulf Crisis: An Update from Washington by Carnes Lord – 53
  • Resolution of the Gulf Crisis and its aftermath by Amos Jordan – 61
  • Australia and the War – The National Interest and the National Debate by Sam Lipski – 66

EAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

  • East Asia in Change—Implications for Australian American Relations by Gerrit Gong- 77
  • Japan in the Asia-Pacific and the World Economy by Peter Drysdale – 85
  • Comments by Carol Austin – 90
  • Australia and the United States in the New World Order by Gareth Evans – 95

WORLD TRADE AFTER THE URUGUAY ROUND

  • After the Uruguay Round—Whither Adam Smith? By John Hewson – 105
  • Political and Economic Developments in the Asia-Pacific by Claudia Rosett – 115

BUSINESS IMPLICATIONS

  • Business and the Gulf Crisis by Kevan Gosper – 125
  • Investing in the Future by Rodney Adler – 129
  • Comments by Bill Lane – 134
  • International Trade—A Return to the Bad Old Ways by Max Walsh – 136
  • Scenarios for the Nineties by Terry McCrann – 140
  • An American Perspective on World Trade by Phil Lincoln – 144

ALLIANCES, PACTS, AGREEMENTS AFTER THE COLD WAR

  • Alliances in the Post Cold War Era by Ronald J Hays – 153
  • US-Australian Friendship – A View from Down Under by Gerard Henderson – 158 /
  • A Binational Australian American Council by John Dorrance –  168