States, Actors and Geopolitical Drivers in the Mediterranean. Perspectives on the New Centrality in a Changing Region

The book tend to study the changes in the diffusion of power within the international system towards the Asian macro-continent, new commercial initiatives such as the Road and Belt Initiative and China’s growing role in the Mediterranean are forging a new centrality of the Mediterranean also from a geo-economic and maritime economy perspectives. The book aims to analyze this new, critical centrality in the global scenario and to uncover the interactions and intertwining of those trends and dynamics offering a historical holistic perspective in order to understand the current geopolitical, social and economic challenges which involved the Mediterranean as well as all the international system. The volume is organized in two main sections, one devoted to the most relevant drivers and broader issues, the second one focusing on single Countries and Actors. These two sections will be introduced by a long critical introduction on the role of the Mediterranean region, within the changing international system as well as the existing literature and perspectives, moving from an historical and cultural approach in order to analyze the current geopolitical trends.