CONTENTS

ARTICLES  •  STUDIES

Stefan Meller
The Language of Politics and the Raison d'État 

Andrzej Ananicz
The International Role of Turkey 

Adam Eberhardt
Belarus after the 2006 Presidential Elections - The Prospects for Democracy 

Anton Bebler
The Federalist Experience in South-Eastern Europe and Post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina 

DIPLOMATIC FILE

Robert Kupiecki
NATO and the Political "Thaw" in Poland and the June 1956 Events

REVIEWS  •  NOTES

Jerzy Kranz
Witold M. Góralski (ed.), Transfer. Obywatelstwo. Majątek. Trudne problemy stosunków polsko-niemieckich. Studia i dokumenty (Transfers, Citizenship, Property: Thorny Issues in Polish- German Relations: Studies and Documents) 

Katarzyna Sękowska)
Agnieszka Bieńczyk-Missala, Prawa człowieka w polskiej polityce zagranicznej po 1989 roku (Human Rights in Polish Foreign Policy after 1989)

Marek Garztecki
Franz Kernic, Paul Klein, Karl Haltiner (eds.), The European Armed Forces in Transition; Natalie L. Mychajlyszyn, Harald Von Riekhoff (eds.), The Evolution of Civil-Military Relations in East-Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union; Roger E. Kanet (ed.), The New Security Environment: The Impact on Russia, Central and Eastern Europe 

Artur Gradziuk)
Peter J. Katzenstein, A World of Regions: Asia and Europe in the American Imperium

Notes 

INTERNATIONAL CHRONOLOGY