Cyprus
Case Study about a Failure of Ethno-national Understanding
©2003
Monographs
200 Pages
Series:
Minderheiten und Minderheitenpolitik in Europa, Volume 3
Summary
The Cyprus conflict has got new prominence since the EU decided in 1997 to accept the Republic’s application for full membership as a (legally) unified state at the Luxembourg summit. This analysis demonstrates that today, the core of the issue is not re-unification. It is a problem of security of those concerned, that is, the Greek and Turkish Cypriots. However, to achieve this target, a process of de-securitisation of the political debate is needed, especially in Turkey. The Greek Cypriots could contribute to such a process by renouncing the fictitious aim of unification. They would gain greatly by concentrating on achieving objectives like indemnisation and de-militarisation of the island, leaving the Turkish Cypriots to aims and objectives which are determined by their own needs.
Details
- Pages
- 200
- Publication Year
- 2003
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783631503607
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Zypernfrage Geschichte Zypern /Gesellschaft, Sozialwissenschaften
- Published
- Frankfurt/M., Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2003. 200 pp., num. fig.
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