The volume focuses on the roles played by Turkey and the countries and unrecognized entities of the South Caucasus in regional integration and the management of the region's ethnopolitical conflicts. The volume is composed of analytical papers based on presentations made at a conference in Istanbul on August 1-4,2008, organized by Cl. The contributors are scholars from Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh and South Ossetia.