Contents

ARTICLES * STUDIES

Stefan Meller
The Language of Politics and the Raison d'État (p. 5)

Andrzej Ananicz
The International Role of Turkey (p. 13)

Adam Eberhardt
Belarus after the 2006 Presidential Elections - The Prospects for Democracy (p. 35)

Anton Bebler
The Federalist Experience in South-Eastern Europe and Post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina (p. 47)

DIPLOMATIC FILE

Robert Kupiecki
NATO and the Political "Thaw" in Poland and the June 1956 Events (p. 70)

REVIEWS * NOTES

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) (Jerzy Kranz) (p. 86)

Agnieszka Bieńczyk-Missala: Prawa człowieka w polskiej polityce zagranicznej po 1989 roku (Human Rights in Polish Foreign Policy after 1989) (Katarzyna Sękowska) (p. 91)

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 (Marek Garztecki) (p. 93)

Peter J. Katzenstein: A World of Regions: Asia and Europe in the American Imperium (Artur Gradziuk) (p. 97)

Notes (p. 101)

INTERNATIONAL CHRONOLOGY

(Aleksandra Zieleniec) (p. 109)