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28 Pol'y Stud. J. 6 (2000)

handle is hein.journals/plyssjnl28 and id is 1 raw text is: Policy Studies Journal, 28:1 From the Editors The present issue of the Policy Studies Journal attests to the remarkable success enjoyed by David Feldman and the other members of the PSJ editorial team in working successfully with the editors of policy symposia. We present here two symposia, both of which address crossnational comparative aspects of public policy. There is considerable geographic scope: One symposium is focused on the policy dimensions of transformation in the former Soviet Union, and the other is directed toward a better understanding of environmental issues in Canada and the United States. With the symposium backlog now somewhat alleviated, the PSJ editors invite communication from those who may wish to explore the possibility of editing a symposium on some aspect of public policy. We invite your contact at the earliest stage of symposium development. We will provide symposium editors with appropriate feedback as quickly as possible regarding the appropriateness of the symposium for the Policy Studies Journal, the time frame for the symposium review process, etc. In subsequent issues, we anticipate returning to our more normal format of several individually contributed articles, together with a symposium and other regular materials. Once again, we invite authors of individually contributed policy manuscripts to submit their work for peer review by the Policy Studies Journal. Articles on all topics related to the study of public policy will be considered, and we will make every effort to provide reasonable turnaround on the review of your paper. The front matter of each issue contains information about submission procedures. Authors are encouraged to get in touch with the co-editors with any questions about the suitability of particular topics or methods; contact information is provided on the inside front cover of each issue. We look forward to receiving your submissions. In This Issue The individually-contributed article in this issue, Middle Powers and American Foreign Policy: Lessons from Irano-U.S. Relations, 1962-77, by Nayef H. Samhat, contends that a post-Cold War American foreign policy relying on middle powers can achieve American security interests while avoiding the potential for excessive entanglements arising from a direct U.S. role. Samhat argues that the effective implementation of this policy is consistent with the promotion of regional stability and the diffusion of democracy. Joel C. Moses is the editor of the first symposium, on problems of transition in the former Soviet Union. In his essay, Policy Dilemmas of Post- Soviet Countries, Moses concludes that for all 27 post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, economic reform since 1991 has succeeded only when it has been instituted simultaneously with democratic reform grounded in a prior sense of community and trust and based on a real rule of law. Emphasis on foreign investment and privatization obscures the need for the comprehensive economic, social, and political reforms that are needed for a sense of national- political community, fairness, and political trust among the post-Soviet publics that give rise to a sense of citizenship and the rights and obligations among publics in democratic civil societies. Foreign investment and privatization instituted without the direct involvement of representative institutions undermine 6