Beyond a Divided Cyprus: A State and Society in Transformation

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Springer, Nov 26, 2012 - Political Science - 292 pages
Cyprus is a postcolonial island known for natural gas reserves and ethnic divisions. This volume presents a fresh perspective on the Cyprus problem by examining the societal transformations taking place within the island: socioeconomic development, population transitions and migration, and rapidly changing social and political institutions.
 

Contents

Beyond a Divided Cyprus a Society in a State of Transformation
1
From a Place of Arms to an Energy Player?
22
The Cyprus Problem Class Struggles and Ethnic Conflict
47
Cypriot Social and Historical Movements in a World Systemic Context
67
A Critical Perspective on British and US Foreign Policy and Strategic Interests in Cyprus
83
Class Nation and Statehood
99
Politics Violence and Political Economy
119
The EU Factor and the Shifting Preferences of the Power Bloc
135
A Historical Overview
169
Rightwing Peacemakers?
185
11 The Potential for Reconciliation Forgiveness and Social Transformation
201
Envisioning Reunification Beyond the Cyprus Economic Miracle
217
Bibliography
248
Notes on Contributors
277
Index
281
Copyright

A Sociopolitical Profile of GreekCypriot Communism
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HAKAN ASLAN Instructor at ?stanbul Bilgi University, Turkey GIORGOS CHARALAMBOUS Associate Lecturer at the University of Cyprus and Frederick University, Cyprus ELIAS IOAKIMOGLOU Senior Research Associate for the Cyprus Labor Institute (INEK-PEO) and the Greek Labor Institute (INE/GSEE) NIYAZI KIZILYUREK Professor in the Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies Department at the University of Cyprus TASSOS KYPRIANIDIS Consulting professional in Athens, Greece and a member of the Editorial Secretariat of the journal ?????? (Theseis) DILEK LATIF Lecturer in the International Relations Department of Near East University, Cyprus NEOPHYTOS LOIZIDES Lecturer in International Conflict Analysis at the University of Kent, UK JOHN MILIOS Professor of Political Economy and the History of Economic thought at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece ANDREAS PANAYIOTOU Assistant Professor at Frederick University, Cyprus PANAYIOTIS PANTELIDES Academic board member of the Cyprus Labor Institute and a founding member of the Cyprus Institute of Critical Social Research and Dialogue ED ROOKSBY Teaches Political Theory at Southampton University and Economic History at Portsmouth University, UK ARI SITAS Senior Professor of Sociology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa EMINE TAHSIN Teaches Development Economics courses at ?stanbul University, Turkey

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