The Balkan countries have been looking for good examples and ideas to pursue development and internal integration in destabilized and ethnically complex and conflicting areas. This book about transformation in the framework of European outlines the path of the Balkans to European integration.

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WILL BARTLETT Reader in Social Economics, University of Bristol, UK MILFORD BATEMAN Principal Consultant, IMC Consulting ltd, UK GABRIELLA BERLOFFA Professor of Microeconomics, University of Trento, Italy ANTONIO M. CHIESI Professor of Methodology of Social Research and Comparative Social Systems, University of Milano, Italy BRUNO GRANCELLI Professor of Economic Sociology, University of Trento, Italy SANDRO GOZI Bureau of the European policy Advisers, President of the European Commission, Italy PAUL MARER Formerly Professor at Indiana University, USA GABRIELLA PIATTONI Professor of Microeconomics, University of Trento, Italy SIMONA PIATTONI Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Trento, Italy MARIA LUIGIA SEGNANA Professor of International Economics, University of Trento, Italy ITALO TREVISAN Associate Professor of International Management and Marketing, University of Trento, Italy JENS WOELK lecturer and Researcher in Comparative Constitutional Law, University of Trento, Italy

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List of Tables and Figures 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 References Index