Isle of Discord

Nationalism, Imperialism and the Making of the Cyprus Problem

 

 This inquiry into the post-war origins of the Cyprus question is based on previously unpublished or unutilized material from British, American and Greek sources. It focuses on the period from when the problem entered the international arena up to the outbreak of the Greek Cypriots' armed struggle.

 

 The prelude to internationalization, 1945-52; towards the United Nations; the limits of diplomacy; resisting change - the formulation of British policy; principles of expediency? the formulation of American policy; the counter-claimant - Turkish reactions to Enosis; "Enosis and only Enosis" - the politics of Greek Cypriot irredentism; treating the tightrope - the formulation of Greek policy