This book is about transformation in the framework of European integration. Specifically, the path of the Balkans to European integration is outlined, although the track is admittedly uncertain. The Balkan countries have acquired particular importance since the 1990s due to their domestic destabilization. The Balkans countries have been looking for good examples and ideas to pursue development and internal integration in destabilized and ethnically complex and conflicting areas.

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Notes on the Contributors
LIst of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Preface
The Local Dimension of Transformation: An Introduction; B.Dallago
EU Expansion and Regional Policy; P.Marer
National and Local Governments: Institutional Rebuilding and the Politics in the Balkans; S.Piattoni
Inequality, Poverty and Growth: The Balkan Case; G.Berloffa & M.L.Segnana
Reforms of Local Development in South-East Europe: Closer to Europe?; J.Woelk
Institutions and Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Evaluation in South-East Europe; B.Dallago
Elites in the Making, and their Organizational Behaviour: Cases in Russia and the Balkans; B.Grancelli & A.M.Chiesi
International Aid, Policy Transfer and Local Economic Development in North Montenegro; W.Bartlett
Rediscovering the Value of the Co-operative Sector in South-East Europe: History, Current Developments and Some Ideas for the Future; M.Bateman
De-localization, Investments and Knowledge Transfer: The Case of 'Triveneto' Industrial Smes' De-localization in Romania; I.Trevisan
The Balkans Viewed from Brussels: The Local Development in South-East Europe; S.Gozi
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BRUNO DALLAGO PhD is Professor of Economics at the University of Trento and Academic Director of the Joint European Master in Comparative Local Development, Italy. He was President of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies, Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, USA and Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan and Consultant to various international organizations. His research interests include comparative economics, transforming economies of Central and East Europe, SMEs and entrepreneurship.