A second batch (a prior volume was noted in Foreign Affairs, Winter 1990/91) of translated recent articles from the leading Soviet journal on international affairs, plus two other articles written for this volume. There is no better way to catch the essence of "new thinking" out on the frontiers of Soviet foreign policy. At times one has to keep reminding oneself that these articles-one on eastern Europe in particular-were actually written and published in the U.S.S.R.