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| Introduction | |
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| Regional Issues: Central and East European Economies | |
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| Russia Casts a Long Shadow Over CIS Economies | |
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| Nato's Ostpolitik: Consolidation, but Kosovo Looms | |
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| European Union Faces East | |
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| The European Union Opens The Door | |
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| Vestiges of Visegrad | |
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| Xenophabia in Central and Eastern Europe | |
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| Central Europe | |
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| CZech Republic: Between Stagnation and Integration | |
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| Document: Mea Culpa | |
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| Slovakia: A Year of Dramatic Change | |
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| Hungary: The Right Returns to Power | |
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| Document: Horn Blasted Over Roma | |
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| Poland: Forging Ahead, but Strains Show | |
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| Look East, Face West | |
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| Rural Reckoning | |
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| Eastern Europe | |
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| Lithuania: The Year Of The President | |
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| Latvia: Twelve Months On A Roller Coaster | |
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| On The Streets With Latvia's Language Patrol | |
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| Estonia: Struggling To Remain The Reform Leader | |
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| Belarus: Bottomed Out | |
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| Widening Cracks In The Wall | |
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| Ukraine: Treadmill Politics | |
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| Profile: Speaker Oleksandr Tkachenko, Oleg Varfolomeyev Dynamic Foreign Policy Constrained By Slow Domestic Reform | |
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| Southeastern Europe | |
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| Slovenia: Success Story Continues | |
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| Croatia: The Rise Of The Opposition | |
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| Document | |
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| In Memoriam | |
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| Bosnia-Herzegovina: A Year of Mixed Results | |
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| Interview: Dayton and Democracy | |
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| Yugoslavia Heading for the Abyss | |
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| Interview: Milosevic's Shrinking Influence in Montenegro | |
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| Macedonia: Defying the Odds by Remaining Stable | |
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| Profile: Ljubco Georgievski: Poet Turned Premier | |
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| An Open Wound | |
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| Albania: A Kind of Stability | |
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| Document: �Parliament of Thieves� | |
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| Bulgaria: A Year of Consolidation | |
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| Institutional Tug of War | |
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| Romania: The Perils of Coaltion Politics | |
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| �A Disgrace,� | |
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| The Shadow of Securitate | |
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| Moldova: From Left to Right, but Not Quite | |
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| Cultural Awareness | |
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| Russian Federation: Economic Crisis Yields Massive Political Fallout | |
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| Sidebar: The Communists and the Jewish Question | |
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| Governors Emerge Stronger | |
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| Sidebar: Murder Silences Starovoitova and Rokhlin | |
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| A Rear-Guard Action: Foreign and Military Policies in 1998 | |
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| Discharge of the Light Brigade | |
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| Farewell to Orthodox Market Transition | |
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| Social Fall-Out From August Crash | |
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| Bringing the Money In | |
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| Transcaucasus and Central Asia | |
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| Georgia: A Difficult Year | |
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| Abkhazia: Peace Postponed | |
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| Azerbaijan: A Time for Patience | |
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| A Nation's Dignity | |
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| Uncertainty Hangs over Future of Nagorno-Karabakh | |
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| Armenia: Change of Leadership Without Political Reform | |
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| Kazakhstan: Nazarbaev Gears Up for Life Presidency | |
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| Uzbekistan: Cracks In the Monolith | |
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| Tajikistan: Peace Does Not Bring an End to the Fighting | |
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| Krygyzstan: Waiting For The Gold Rush | |
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| Turkmenistan: The Faltering Oil State | |
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| Interview: Building Democracy the Eastern Way | |