The two--or three?--phases of U.S.-Soviet relations 1981-1986 / Walter LaFeber -- The United States and Western Europe in the Reagan era / James R. Kurth -- The Reagan administration and American hegemony in Northeast Asia / Bruce Cumings -- Reagan and the Pax Afrikaana / Lee Cokorinos and James H. Mittelman -- The Reagan administration and the Middle East, 1981-1986 / Fred Halliday -- The Reagan administration and Nicaragua / Morris H. Morley and James F. Petras -- From dictatorship to elite populism / Walden Bello.