The Balkans and Caucasus - Parallel Processes on the Opposite Sides of the Black Sea (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)

The overall character of the Black Sea region has been defined over time in various ways. For specialists in economy and trade, it has represented a region at the crossroads of the trade routes between Europe and Asia; for political scientists and historians, it has been a space of confrontation between the great terrestrial and naval powers; for the scholars attentive to its cultural dimensions, it has been a contact zone, a space of interaction between different peoples, religions and cultures. These attempts at a definition all revolve around an essential (and ambivalent) feature of the Black Sea as a factor of connection, a bridge, and at the same time a border, a dividing line between Europe and Asia, between the Baltic and the Mediterranean region. In this fluctuation between the two, the predominance of one over the other ("bridge" or "border") has depended on a number of factors, first among them the distribution of power relations in the region.This volume, which originated in a symposium hosted by the New Europe College - Institute for Advanced Study in Bucharest, brings together contributions coming from scholars within the Black Sea region and outside it, in an attempt to look at the Balkans and Caucasus from a comparative and multi-disciplinary perspective, highlighting their differences, as well as their common features. The overarching question this volume and the papers included in it address - and leave open - is to what extent we are dealing with a coherent zone, whose past, present and future can legitimately be considered as being traversed by meaningful interrelations, suggesting a shared destiny.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2012
First published:	April 2012
Editors:	Ivan Biliarsky • Ovidiu Cristea • Anca Oroveanu
Dimensions:	212 x 148 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - With dust jacket
Pages:	350
Edition:	Unabridged edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4438-3652-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > International economics > International trade > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > European history > General
LSN:	1-4438-3652-4
Barcode:	9781443836524

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