Chapter titles and authors give an idea of the scope of this book: "The Future of Brazil: An Overview" by the editor, William H. Overholt (policy analyst at Hudson Institute and editor of Global Political Assessment)(see HLAS:43:7441); "Brazil's Future Foreign Relations" by William L. Ascher (professor of Latin American politics at Johns Hopkins University); "The Political Future of Brazil" by Riordan Roett (director of Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies); "The Brazilian Economy: Structural Legacies and Future Prospects" by Douglas H. Graham (director of the Latin American Studies Program at Ohio State University); "The State and Brazilian Economic Development: The Contemporary Reality and Prospects for the Future" by Sylvia Ann Hewlett (professor of economics at Columbia University); "Brazil's Debt Burden," also by Overholt; and "Treatment of the Foreign Investor: The Brazilian Style" by Keith S. Rosenn (professor of law at Ohio State University and specialist on Brazilian law).