8 March 2011
by Hugh Pope
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Rationality and the Cyprus Dispute

One of the joys of the dealing with the Cyprus dispute is the good humour of the Cypriots – a much needed antidote to the determined unwillingness of politicians to reach out and compromise over a frozen conflict whose origins … Continue reading

24 July 2009
by Hugh Pope
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Can Cyprus Buck the Partitionist Trend?

“Everyone in my community is clairvoyant,” a Belfast politician is quoted as saying in Divided Cities, a new book by Jon Calame and Esther Charlesworth (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009). “My community knows how evil and devious the other side is … Continue reading

23 February 2009
by Hugh Pope
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Setting the Stage

Turkey has been converging formally with the European Union and its predecessors since it signed an association agreement in 1963, the same year the dispute between Greek Cypriots, Turkish Cypriots, Turkey and Greece over Cyprus became both a cause and … Continue reading