Embracing Cyprus: The Path to Unity in the New Europe

Review
"...a highly readable book...that challenges the half-truths that so many of us have held dear."-- Vassilis Fouskas, The Cyprus Review
"...clearly a book of major importance and topicality!"-- Eleftheria


Review
"...a highly readable book...that challenges the half-truths that so many of us have held dear."-- Vassilis Fouskas, The Cyprus Review
"...clearly a book of major importance and topicality!"-- Eleftheria


Review
"...a highly readable book...that challenges the half-truths that so many of us have held dear."-- Vassilis Fouskas, The Cyprus Review
"...clearly a book of major importance and topicality!"-- Eleftheria


Book Description
When Archbishop Makarios was toppled as President of Cyprus in a 1974 coup, and Turkish forces invaded the island, few saw Cyprus as part of the incipient drive to create a new Europe. Yet, as the authors reveal here, behind the rhetoric of the politicians there is a growing view among Greek and Turkish Cypriots that the solution to Cyprus’s problems lies within the gift of Europe. They argue that the intercommunal stand-off can only be diffused and ultimately resolved by firmly embedding Cyprus within Europe.


About the Author
Pauline Green is Chief Executive of the Co-operative Union. Ray Collins is an independent political analyst and European affairs consultant.



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"When Archbishop Makarios was toppled as President of Cyprus in a 1974 coup and Turkish forces invaded the island, few saw Cyprus as part of the incipient drive to create a new Europe. Since then the torment of the divided island has deepened, with Greek and Turkish Cypriot politicians increasingly entrenched in their discord, while the Cyprus problem has loomed ever larger as a source of instability in an already volatile region." Yet, as Pauline Green reveals here, behind the rhetoric of the politicians there has evolved a growing view among Greek and Turkish Cypriots that the solution to Cyprus's problems lies within the gift of Europe. She argues that the inter-communal stand-off can only be diffused and ultimately resolved by firmly embedding Cyprus within Europe. In a Cyprus that is part of the European Union, the petty nationalisms that fuel the conflict would be rendered irrelevant. The author's analysis, which also links into Turkey's application for EU membership, will interest not only those concerned with the future of Cyprus, Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean but also with the fate of the European Union itself.


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