...Michalis Attalides This essay attempts to assess the consequences of the so-called Helsinki Strategy since its creation at the Helsinki European Council of December 1999. It analyzes the strategy’s interrelations with other processes involved in developments related to the Cyprus problem. Despite...

... at the Atlantic Council. Copyright 2014 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2014 Turks, Cypriots, and the Cyprus Problem: Hopes and Complications Ross Wilson Moves to resume the United Nations – led Cyprus peace talks have given renewed hope to those who pine for an end to the island’s long...

...Andreas Theophanous Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2003 Andreas Theophanous is professor of political economy and director general at the Research and Development Center, Intercollege, Nicosia, Cyprus. The Cyprus Problem: Accession to the EU and Broader...

...Iacovos Kareklas This essay analyses the security policy that should be pursued in settling the international problem of Cyprus. Initially, it shows how the system of guarantor states does not comply with rules of international political morality. It describes how the international community...

..., the tensions in Turkey-Israel relations, and the unresolved Cyprus problem. In an attempt to analyze and explain these reasons, the essay concludes with assumptions on how stability and security in the eastern Mediterranean might emerge. This analysis, based on the theoretical background of political realism...

... for the resolution of the Cyprus problem. Because of these talks, the government of Cyprus deliberately downplayed this important milestone in the history of the country. Political reasons had also kept the independence celebrations in 1960 to a minimum. History appears to have repeated itself fifty years...

... a united Cyprus join the Europe, and let me assure you that this is even more so our desire. We want to solve the Cyprus problem, and we have done everything possible in this direction. Unfortunately, until now we have failed, because we have been facing an intransigent Turkey, supporting the even...

... community for the settlement of the Cyprus problem. Copyright 2014 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2014 The Geopolitical Role of Cyprus in the Wider Context of the European Union Andreas D. Mavroyiannis The British humorist H. H. Munro, better known by the pen name Saki, alluding...

... to facilitate the resolution of the Cyprus problem. Yet all of them came up short against the brick wall called Turkish intransigence and American acquiescence to Ankara’s out- landish demands. There is no polite way to say it except to note that for the Department of State the Cyprus problem seems...

... and simultaneously indicating to the EU that Turkey was serious about solving the Cyprus problem.32 Initially, the checkpoint openings in Cyprus created the sense of an impending reunification visvis the 2004 Annan Plan or, arguably, were a way of preparing people for the inevitable reiteration...

... and the continu- ing occupation of 40 percent of Cyprus by Turkey — both Greek and Turkish Cypriots have sought a just and lasting solution to the Cyprus problem. Such a solution would reunite a country that has been de facto partitioned by the presence of occupying troops, would ensure peace and harmony...

... communist danger coming from the north. This cordial era ended in 1954 with the eruption of the Cyprus problem, a bilateral confl ict between Greece and Turkey that persisted into the next decades with the emergence of the Aegean dispute. After the emer- gence of the Cyprus dispute, both states...

..., British, and others who saw the Cyprus problem as an obstacle hampering Turkey’s application for European Union membership. In Mela- kopides’ words, “The plan was treated by its defenders as aiming at the reunification of Cyprus. In truth, its goals were far more intricate, but serving a variety...

... in the treaty was that what 5. “Karamanlis’s Statement,” Foreign Broadcast Information Services (FBISGreece, 6 September 1958. 6. “Only Solution Partition,” FBIS-­Cyprus, 4 June 1958. 7. For more on this history, see Diana Markides, “The Divisive Problem of the Municipalities,” Journal...

... and point out that the Greek Cypriots said no not due to selfishness and lack of cooperative spirit but because the plan was deeply flawed and was the product of behind-the-scenes machinations by Europeans, British, and others who saw the Cyprus problem as an obstacle hampering Turkey’s application...

..., must be carefully considered, as additional parameters come into play. Throughout the post – World War II period, Cyprus was a problem of relatively low intensity and minor potential danger in an international system in which the Great Powers focused their interests on processes of gigantic...

... subsequently be made in Brussels to break the stalemate on a solution to the Cyprus problem.” As she makes clear from the start, she did not intend to focus on the history of conflict. Rather, she chose to concentrate on the “potential for the evolution of a new political infrastructure in Europe, about its...

... membership in July 1990. In this, Green saw “a real opportunity to contribute to the efforts which would subsequently be made in Brussels to break the stalemate on a solution to the Cyprus problem.” As she makes clear from the start, she did not intend to focus on the history of conflict. Rather, she...

... to contribute to the efforts which would subsequently be made in Brussels to break the stalemate on a solution to the Cyprus problem.” As she makes clear from the start, she did not intend to focus on the history of conflict. Rather, she chose to concentrate on the “potential for the evolution of a new...

..., and then by submitting that, beyond Russia, the administration of Barack Obama holds the key to abandoning Washington’s legally and morally untenable position regarding the Cyprus problem. In other words, by defend- ing the legal and moral rights of the Republic of Cyprus, the United States could be applying...