Brian Nelson is Professor of French, David Roberts is Professor of German Studies and Walter Veit is Associate Profesor of German Studies, all at Monash University, Melbourne.

• Europe - an epilogue?, Agnes Heller; Europe today and the postmodern paradox, Barry Smart; Europe and Japan - problems of "internationalization", Toshiko Kishida; questions for Europe, John Keane; who needs European identity and what could it be?, Sven Papcke; political parties between national identity and Eurofication, Michael Greven; democracy and big government, Barry Hindess; contemporary feminist movements in Western Europe - paradigms for change?, Gisela Kaplan; "socialism in half a country" - problems of national and cultural identity in the German Democratic Republic, John Milfull; Europe, Central Europe and the Austrian identity, Leslie Bodi; Francois Mitterand and the idea of Europe, Alan Clark.