Intro -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATION -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION: A NEW EASTERN QUESTION? -- PART I GREAT POWER PERSPECTIVES -- YUGOSLAVIA-FROM VARDAR TO TRIGLAV NO MORE -- THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE POST-YUGOSLAV STATES-FROM NEGLIGENCE TO DOMINANCE AND BACK? -- THE RELUCTANT, INTERMITTENT INTERVENTIONIST: US FOREIGN POLICY IN THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA 1991-TO DATE -- A PLAYFIELD OF DISTANCING: RUSSIA'S POLICY TOWARDS THE POST-YUGOSLAV STATES -- THE PAST IS IMPORTANT BUT THE FUTURE MATTERS-CHINA AND THE POST-YUGOSLAV STATES -- TURKEY'S FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS THE POST-YUGOSLAV STATES: REGIONAL CONTENDER OR ALLY FORTHE EUROPEAN UNION? -- PART II THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE POST-YUGOSLAV STATES -- FROM INTEGRATION TO PLURILATERALISM? SLOVENIA AND THE GREAT POWERS -- CROATIA: EXPLORING RELATIONS WITH NON-EU POWERS FROM COMFORT OF EU-MEMBERSHIP -- REDISCOVERING AN OLD PLAYBOOK: SERBIA AND THE GREAT POWERS -- DEPENDENCE, INDEPENDENCE, INTERDEPENDENCE: MONTENEGRO'S FOREIGN POLICY FROM 1991 TO 2020 -- IN SEARCH OF A BIG BROTHER: GREAT POWERS AND FOREIGN POLICY IN NORTH MACEDONIA -- WHEN INTERNAL COMPLEXITY REFLECTS EXTERNAL CHALLENGES: THE GREAT POWERS AND BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA -- KOSOVO: A GREAT POWERS' EUROPEAN AND BALKAN PROJECTION -- CONCLUDING REMARKS-THE POTENTIAL AND PITFALLS OF A NEW EASTERN QUESTION -- INDEX