- Remembering The Civil War by Barbara Fields – 1
- The Future of the Soviet Union by Sasha Kabakov – 9
- Public Funding of the Arts – Principles and Practices by Ken Tribe – 15
- The Multi Function Polis by John Bannon – 25
- Industrial Relations Reform: A View From the Labour Movement by Mark Duffy – 35
- US/Soviet Relations After the Bush-Gorbachev Summit by Michael Mandelbaum – 47
- Reflections on South Africa Ross Garnaut – 55
- Watch Not: Waste Plenty -The Role of Parliamentary Committees by Bronwyn Bishop – 65
- The New World Order After the Moscow Coup by Michael Ledeen – 79
- Privatisation and the State Bank of New South Wales by John O’Neill – 89
- Reporting Australian Politics: A Tabloid View From Canberra by Amanda Buckley – 97
- From Lucky Country to Lonely Country? Australia and the American Alliance by Anne Summers – 107
- Human Rights in China and Tibet by Alice Tay – 113
- Japan -Nonpareil? by Rawdon Dalrymple – 121
- Britain After Thatcher by Martin Holmes – 131