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Signposts: Cyprus, UK and the Future of the SBAs
(2015)
The UK Sovereign Base Areas (SBAs) in Cyprus are products of the terms and conditions attached to Cypriot independence in 1960, and are highly unusual territorial and political entities. Since the 1974 division of the ...
Branding Orthodoxy: Religious diplomacy and the Makarios legacy in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2017)
This article investigates religious diplomacy and its branding potential and power ramifications, focusing on Cypriot missionary work in Sub-Saharan Africa. It analyses the diplomacy of Archbishop Makarios III, the first ...
The long mile of empire: Power, legitimation and the UK bases in Cyprus
(2005)
This article examines the continuities and discontinuities of imperial rule in Cyprus. It specifically investigates how the UK military base regime in the island has been negotiated in its local and regional contexts, ...
Engaging the ‘ungoverned’: The merging of diplomacy, defence and development
(2016)
This article explores biopolitical practices that extend beyond national borders and take the whole of humanity as their province. It looks at how attempts to secure and optimize conditions of living in Africa are not ...
The Sage handbook of diplomacy
(Sage Publications, 2016)
The beautiful nation: Reflections on the aesthetics of Hellenism
(2006)
An aesthetics of Hellenism affirming an exclusivity and localization of the beautiful oscillates along a political axis from domination to liberation. This article seeks to unsettle such accounts of "the beautiful nation" ...
Cyprus, ethnic conflict and conflicted heritage
(2010)
This article examines the dominant heritage discourse in Cyprus concerning preservation and destruction, and its implications for ethnocultural identity construction and promotion. By exploring two heritage sites (one north ...
On the Cypriot states of exception
(2008)
This article explores the politics of exceptionality in Cyprus. It focuses on the postcolonial constriction of Cypriot statehood - the framing of the sovereign itself as an exception - and how the emerging discourse of ...