Domestic-international linkages. International-national linkages and political processes in Yugoslavia / William Zimmerman. Romanian foreign policy in the 1980s / Ronald H. Linden. External influences on regime stability in GDR / Michael J. Sodaro -- The role of specialist elites. The scientific-technological revolution and the role of specialist elites in policy-making in Czechoslovakia / Sharon L. Wolchik. Polish journalists in the 1980s / Jane L. Curry. Intellectuals and their discontent in Hungary / Rudolf L. Tökés -- Eastern Europe and the world. Comecon / Stanislaw Wasowski. The Warsaw Pact / Thomas Cason. Eastern Europe and the Third World / Roger E. Kanet