Table of Contents:
  • The neighborhood effect : from empires and states to regional resiliency
  • How to study imperial peripheries as political regions
  • The imperial roots of armed conflict in Eurasia
  • The Habsburg Empire and the Bosnian province
  • The Ottoman Empire and Eastern Anatolia
  • The Russian Empire and Transcaucasia
  • Paired peripheries and (c)old conflicts
  • Peace by proxy : the neighborhood effect in turbulent times.