...Constantine P. Danopoulos Constantine P. Danopoulos is professor of political science at San Jose State University, California. Pyrros James G. : The Cyprus File: Washington, D.C.; A Diary of the Cyprus Crisis in the Summer of 1974. New York : Pella Publishing Company, Inc...

...Angeliki Andrea Kanavou This essay highlights the role of contingent provisions in the London-Zurich Agreements, which established the Republic of Cyprus, in damaging the future chances for a smoothly functioning state of affairs between the ethnic groups on Cyprus. By allowing contentious elements...

...Costas Melakopides Having previously applied the concept of pragmatic idealism to the “like-minded middle powers” during the Cold War, the author now aims to extend its application to great powers and even superpowers. This essay challenges the stereotypical realist conception of Russia’s Cyprus...

...Tozun Bahcheli Turkey achieved major gains through its military intervention in Cyprus following the Greek junta’s coup against Cypriot president Archbishop Makarios in July 1974. Yet Turkey has been repeatedly frustrated by its inability to capitalize on its military accomplishment and to achieve...

...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...

...Andreas D. Mavroyiannis This essay explains how Cyprus is positioned to play a constructive and stabilizing role in the eastern Mediterranean and how valuable this role can be for the foreign and security policy of the European Union. Offshore hydrocarbon discoveries in Cyprus’s exclusive economic...

...John Sitilides The long-standing Cyprus question is deeply influenced and shaped by the complex political and geostrategic environment of the broader Mediterranean region. In addition, Cyprus is key to European and Western power and influence in the greater Middle East and of increasing interest...

...Michael Clarke The eastern Mediterranean, and particularly Cyprus, had been set for some sort of international crisis throughout 2013. Many tense situations become spring loaded by their circumstances, and no one can predict what, if anything, might set them off. But in the politics of the eastern...

...Ross Wilson Moves to resume the United Nations-led Cyprus peace talks in 2014 have given hope of an end to the island’s long-lived division. Factors that shape the prospects for progress now include the February 2013 election of a new, prosettlement Cypriot government and the discovery of offshore...

... in the Architecture and Murals of the Panagia Phorbiotissa, Cyprus . Washington, DC : Dumbarton Oaks , 2012 . 431 pages . ISBN 978-0-88402-349-4 . Copyright 2014 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2014 Reviews Annemarie Weyl Carr and Andreas...

...Michael B. Bishku Cyprus and Malta are small Mediterranean states located on the periphery of Europe that have had unusual political affiliations following independence from Great Britain in 1960 and 1964, respectively. Historically and culturally they have had Middle Eastern connections. Cyprus...

...Pavlos I. Koktsidis; Menelaos Apostolou Negotiations for the settlement of the Cyprus question have resumed amid a pressing geopolitical and economic reality. Greek and Turkish Cypriots adopt distinct interpretations of the United Nations–designated recipe for a bicommunal and bizonal federation...

...Cobie Harris Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2007 Cobie Harris is associate professor of political science at San Jose State University, California. Costas Melakopides: Unfair Play: Cyprus, Turkey, Greece, the UK and the EU . Martello Papers 29. Kingston, Ontario: Centre...

... Diplomatic Strategies on Cyprus, 1945 to 2004 Evanthis Hatzivassilou Although the Greeks often had their backs to the wall during diplomatic maneu- verings on the Cyprus question, they very rarely managed to convince the inter- national community that they had reached the limits...

...George C. Georgiou This essay analyzes the economic consequences of the proposed reunification of Cyprus and concludes that, based on the framework presently being negotiated, the much-publicized economic peace dividend will not materialize for the majority of Cypriots. The economic costs...

...Despina Michael New hopes for a final settlement in Cyprus have recently been raised because of the high-powered talks between President Demetrios Christofias of the Republic of Cyprus and Turkish-Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat. This essay considers how a reunified Cyprus might deal...

... Jan Asmussen: Cyprus at War: Diplomacy and Conflict during the 1974 Crisis . London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2008. 364 pages. ISBN: 978-1-84511-742. $100. Reviewed by William Mallinson. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2010 William Mallinson, a former British diplomat, is lecturer...

...Yannis Stivachtis Vassilis K. Fouskas and Alex O. Tackie: Cyprus: The Post-Imperial Constitution . London: Pluto Press, 2009. 128 pages. ISBN 978-0-7453-2935-2. $14.00 (paperback). Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2010 Yannis Stivachtis is associate professor of political science...

...Van Coufoudakis The essay discusses how the “reluctant republic” of Cyprus in 1960 became a successful, liberal democracy and member of the European Union, despite externally instigated political discord, foreign interference, foreign invasion and continuing occupation, economic dislocation...

... in the prospect of hydrocarbon deposits in Cyprus's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Turkey has not recognized the EEZ of Cyprus and, for decades, has not only opposed the United Nations' Convention on the Law of the Sea but it has interpreted and attempted to distort it to make gains in its maritime conflict...