From the Adriatic to the Caucasus. The Dynamics of (De)Stabilization

There are no doubts that the Adriatic-Caspian corridor is currently the most destabilized European area, where the dynamics of destabilization, although triggering off at local level, present a component causing a regional and international fallout effect. In order to investigate both these dimensions, some of the best international experts of the Adriatic-Caspian area met and contribute the present book.
 
In a first group of contributions, they draw the attention to case-studies, such those the Caspian Region and ex soviet Central Asia, the Nagorno-Karabakh, the Crimea, Transnistria and Moldavia, Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia et the time when Milosevic's uncontested rule gave way to his successor Kostunica.
 
A second groups of chapters follows, dealing with knotty "transversal" problems concerning space and security; the international "protectorates" over Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia; the role of international aids; the use of myths and symbols in building loyalties to the State; the institutional and political fragility of the States.
 
In the end, a concluding chapter discusses the interdependence between local destabilizing factors and their regional impact in order to offer to the reader a comprehensive approach and key-elements for interpreting current events.