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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.

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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

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HAKAN ASLAN Instructor at ?stanbul Bilgi University, Turkey GIORGOS CHARALAMBOUS Associate Lecturer at the University of Cyprus and Frederick University, Cyprus ELIAS IOAKIMOGLOU Senior Research Associate for the Cyprus Labor Institute (INEK-PEO) and the Greek Labor Institute (INE/GSEE) NIYAZI KIZILYUREK Professor in the Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies Department at the University of Cyprus TASSOS KYPRIANIDIS Consulting professional in Athens, Greece and a member of the Editorial Secretariat of the journal ?????? (Theseis) DILEK LATIF Lecturer in the International Relations Department of Near East University, Cyprus NEOPHYTOS LOIZIDES Lecturer in International Conflict Analysis at the University of Kent, UK JOHN MILIOS Professor of Political Economy and the History of Economic thought at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece ANDREAS PANAYIOTOU Assistant Professor at Frederick University, Cyprus PANAYIOTIS PANTELIDES Academic board member of the Cyprus Labor Institute and a founding member of the Cyprus Institute of Critical Social Research and Dialogue ED ROOKSBY Teaches Political Theory at Southampton University and Economic History at Portsmouth University, UK ARI SITAS Senior Professor of Sociology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa EMINE TAHSIN Teaches Development Economics courses at ?stanbul University, Turkey

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