Beyond a Divided Cyprus: A State and Society in Transformation [Hardcover]

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.Introduction: Beyond a Divided Cyprus, a Society in a State of Transformation; N.Trimikliniotis  & U.Bozkurt The Cyprus Problem and Imperial Games in the Hydrocarbon Era: From a Place of Arms to an Energy Player?; N.Trimikliniotis Rethinking the Postcolonial Cypriot Statehood: the Cyprus Problem, Class Struggle and Ethnic Conflict; U.Bozkurt  & N.Trimikliniotis Border Dialectics: Cypriot Social and Historical Movements in a World Systemic Context; A.Panayiotou Cyprus and the West: a Critical Perspective on British and US Foreign Policy and Strategic Interests in Cyprus; E.Rooksby Greek and Greek-Cypriot Political Strategies on Independence: Class, Nation and Statehood; J.Milios  & T.Kyprianidis The Turkish-Cypriot Nationalist Drive Toward State-building: Politics, Violence and Political Economy; H.Aslan Making Sense of Turkey's Changing Cyprus Policy: The EU Factor and the Shifting Preferences of the Power Bloc; E.Tahsin AKEL: A Socio-political Profile of Greek-Cypriot Communism; G.Charalambous Turkish Cypriot Left: An Historical Overview; N.Kizilyurek Transformations of the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot Right: Right-wing Peace-makers?; N.Loizides The Potential for Reconciliation, Forgiveness and Social Transformation; D.Latif  & A.Sitas A Political Economy of Division, Development and Crisis: Envisioning Reunification beyond the Cyprus Economic Miracle; E.Ioakimoglou , N.Trimikliniotis   P.Pantelides

This book makes a significant and thought-provoking contribution to existing scholarship on Cyprus and the social and political dynamics at play in dilă•