Beyond a Divided Cyprus [electronic resource] : A State and Society in Transformation /
Trimikliniotis, Nicos.author.
Bozkurt, Umut.author.
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.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Beyond a Divided Cyprus, a Society in a State of Transformation; The Cyprus Problem and the Imperial Games in the Hydrocarbon Era: From a "Place of Arms" to an Energy Player?; 2 Rethinking the Postcolonial Cypriot Statehood: The Cyprus Problem, Class Struggles, and Ethnic Conflict; 3 Border Dialectics: Cypriot Social and Historical Movements in a World Systemic Context; 4 Cyprus and the West: A Critical Perspective on British and US Foreign Policy and Strategic Interests in Cyprus
5 Greek and Greek-Cypriot Political Strategies on Independence: Class, Nation, and Statehood6 Turkish-Cypriot Nationalist Drive toward State-Building: Politics, Violence, and Political Economy; Making Sense of Turkey's Changing Cyprus Policy: The EU Factor and the Shifting Preferences of the Power Bloc; 8 AKEL: A Sociopolitical Profile of Greek-Cypriot Communism; 9 Turkish-Cypriot Left: A Historical Overview; 10 Transformations of the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot Right: Right-wing Peace-makers?; 11 The Potential for Reconciliation, Forgiveness, and Social Transformation
12 A Political Economy of Division, Development, and Crisis: Envisioning Reunification Beyond the Cyprus Economic MiracleBibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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