Part 1 North Atlantic Treaty Organization: alliance perceptions of the Soviet threat 1950-1988, Robert Spencer; NATO threat perceptions in the 1950s and 1980s - a brief comparison, Carl-Christoph Schweitzer. Part 2 The United States: American threat analyses in the 1950s, Carl-Christoph Schweitzer; American perceptions in the 1980s, Thomas Banchoff; The United States in the 1980s - internal estimates, Michael Jochum. Part 3 The United Kingdom: British threat-analyses in the 1950s, James Matthew Jones; perceptions of the Soviet threat - Britain in the 1980s, Julian Bullard; British Government perceptions in the 1950s and 1980s - a comparison, John Dunbabin. Part 4 France: perceptions of the Soviet threat in the 1950s and 1980s - the case of France, Pierre Hassner. Part 5 The Netherlands: Dutch perception of the Soviet threat in the 1950s - empirical data, Jan Verkaik; Dutch perceptions in the 1950s and 1980s, Leon Wecke. Part 6 The Federal Republic of Germany: the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1950s and 1980s, Carl-Christoph Schweitzer; dramatic changes in the threat perceptions of the Social Democratic Party, Martin Krumme. Part 7 The Soviet Union: Soviet threat perceptions in the 1950s, Gerhard Wettig; Stalin and the paper tigers 1945-1953, Michael Voslensky; threat perceptions on the wane - the 1980s from the perspective of the 1950s, Vojtech Mastny. Part 8 Conclusions, Carl-Christoph Schweitzer.