James Ker-Lindsay is Eurobank Senior Research Fellow on the Politics of South East Europe at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. His previous books include An Island in Europe: The EU and the Transformation of Cyprus (I.B.Tauris, co-edited with Hubert Faustmann and Fiona Mullen), Crisis and Conciliation: A Year of Rapprochement between Greece and Turkey (I.B.Tauris), The Government and Politics of Cyprus (co-edited with Hubert Faustmann) and The Cyprus Problem: What Everyone Needs to Know.
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List of Abbreviations
AKEL | Progressive Party for the Working People |
AKP | AKP Justice and Development Party |
BBF | bizonal, bicommunal federation |
CBMs | confidence-building measures |
CIA | Central Intelligence Agency |
CMP | Committee for Missing Persons |
CSDP | Common Security and Defence Policy |
CSO | Civil Society Organisations |
CTP | Turkish Republican Party |
DIKO | Democratic Party |
DISY | Democratic Rally |
DMZ | demilitarised zone |
ECB | European Central Bank |
EDEK | Movement of Social Democrats |
EDON | United Democratic Youth Organisation |
EEZ | exclusive economic zone |
EOKA | National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters |
EU | European Union |
EUFOR | European Union Force |
EVROKO | European Party |
GAT | Gender Advisory Team |
GDP | gross domestic product |
HAD | Hands Across the Divide |
IMF | International Monetary Fund |
LNG | liquefied natural gas |
NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organisation |
NGO | non-governmental organisation |
PASOK | Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement |
PEO | Pancyprian Federation of Labour |
RoC | Republic of Cyprus |
SAFE | Synchronised Armed Forces Europe |
SBA | Sovereign Base Area |
TBF | trizonal, bicommunal federation |
TMT | Turkish Resistance Organisation |
TRC | Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
TRNC | Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus |
UDI | unilateral declaration of independence |
UN | United Nations |
UNDP | United Nations Development Programme |
UNFICYP | United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus |
USAID | US Agency for International Development |
Editor and Contributors
Editor
James Ker-Lindsay is Eurobank Senior Research Fellow on the Politics of South East Europe at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. His research focuses on conflict, peace and security in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Western Balkans and on issues relating to secession and recognition in international politics. His books include The Cyprus Problem: What Everyone Needs to Know (2011), An Island in Europe: The EU and the Transformation of Cyprus (2011, co-edited with Hubert Faustmann and Fiona Mullen), The Government and Politics of Cyprus (2009, co-edited with Hubert Faustmann), Crisis and Conciliation: A Year of Rapprochement between Greece and Turkey (2007), EU Accession and UN Peacemaking in Cyprus (2005), Britain and the Cyprus Crisis, 19631964 (2004) and The Work of the UN in Cyprus: Promoting Peace and Development (2001, co-edited with Oliver Richmond).
Contributors
Constantinos Adamides is a lecturer of European Studies and International Relations, and Finance and Economics at the University of Nicosia and a research fellow at the Research and Innovation Office. His research interests are securitisation, ethnic conflicts, regional security complexes and energy security.
Emel Akali is an assistant professor at the International Relations and European Studies Department of Central European University in Budapest. She is the author of Chypre: Un enjeu gopolitique actuel (lHarmattan, Paris, 2009) and has published articles in Security Dialogue, Eurasian Geography and Economics and Geopolitics.
Ahmet An was born in 1950 in Nicosia. A paediatrician by profession, he has published 22 books about Turkish Cypriots and the Cyprus Problem. As the Turkish Cypriot Coordinator of the Movement for an Independent and Federal Cyprus, he won his case against Turkey at the European Court of Human Rights in 2003, which resulted in the opening of the gates two months later.
Jan Asmussen is a political scientist and historian at the Institute of Social Sciences, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel and Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queens University, Belfast. He was previously Head of the conflict and security cluster at the European Centre for Minority Studies, Flensburg and has taught at several universities in Cyprus.
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