Section One. The Legal Status of the Ottoman Tributaries -- The Legal and Political Status of Wallachia and Moldavia in Relation to the Ottoman Porte / Viorel Panaite -- Sovereignty and Subordination in Crimean-Ottoman Relations (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries) / Natalia Krolikowska -- Between Vienna and Constantinople : Notes on the Legal Status of the Principality of Transylvania / Terez Oborni -- Janus-faced Sovereignty : The International Status of the Ragusan Republic in the Early Modern Period / Lovro Kuncevic -- Cossack Ukraine In and Out of Ottoman Orbit, 1648-1681 / Victor Ostapchuk -- Section Two. The Diplomacy of the Tributary States in the Ottoman System -- Sovereignty and Representation : Tributary States in the Seventeenth-century Diplomatic System of the Ottoman Empire / Gabor Karman -- Diplomatic Relations between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Dubrovnik / Vesna Miovic -- Enemies Within : Networks of Influence and the Military Revolts against the Ottoman Power (Moldavia and Wallachia, Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries) / Radu G. Paun -- Section Three. Military Cooperation between the Ottoman Empire and Its Tributaries -- The Friend of My Friend and the Enemy of My Enemy : Romanian Participation in Ottoman Campaigns / Ovidiu Cristea -- The Military Co-operation of the Crimean Khanate with the Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Maria Ivanics -- "Splendid Isolation"? The Military Cooperation of the Principality of Transylvania with the Ottoman Empire (1571-1688) in the Mirror of the Hungarian Historiography's Dilemmas / Janos B. Szabo -- The Defensive System of the Ragusan Republic (c. 1580-1620) / Domagoj Madunic -- Section Four. Instead of a Conclusion: On the "Compositeness" of the Empire -- The System of Autonomous Muslim and Christian Communities, Churches, and States in the Ottoman Empire / Sandor Papp -- What is Inside and What is Outside? Tributary States in Ottoman Politics / Dariusz Kolodziejczyk.