Security, Identity and Nation Building : Cyprus and the EU in Comparative Perspective Book

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	Acknowledgements
	Preface
	Introduction	1
1	Theoretical foundations and propositions	14
	A realist explanation of the Cyprus dispute	16
	A functionalist analysis of the conflict	24
	Socio-psychological factors	29
	The question of identity	33
2	Identity as a crucial intervening variable	50
	Common Cypriot traits	51
	Drawing from the American melting pot experience	56
	Identity formation in the larger system	57
	Public education and identity	58
	Congruence of identities	59
	Economic rationalism and ethnic identity	61
	'Self-group' approach to identity	62
	Conclusions: the role of history and economic pragmatism	64
3	External dynamics - phase I: roots of the conflict	77
	Zurich and London Agreements	80
	Treaties of Guarantee	82
	Cyprus and ethnopolitics	84
	Greece and the Cyprus issue	84
	The Greek dictatorship	86
	The 1967 crisis	86
	Turkey and the Cyprus conflict	88
4	Phase II: American foreign policy vis-a-vis Turkey and Greece - implications for the Cyprus problem	96
	Historical background	97
	The Lausanne conference and US economic interests	99
	US intervention in Greece	101
	The policy of Makarios	102
	Greece's new 'independent' policy	104
	Deterioration of Greco-American relations	105
	The colonels' policy on Cyprus	107
5	Phase III: post-1974 developments and Cyprus's EU orientation	114
	Cyprus and the European Union	115
	Franco-German rapprochement and the Cyprus issue	118
	European security policy in the 1990s: potential effects on the Cyprus problem	120
	Linking general and special work	123
	The economic imperative as a foreign policy instrument	124
	'Conflict of interest' model	125
	Western perceptions of Turkey	130
	Conclusions and theoretical implications	139
	The economic imperative	144
	'Nordpolitik' applied in Cyprus	146
	New policies for old sensitivities?	149
	Bibliography	157
	Appendix: A. Tables	169
	Appendix: B. Maps	172