De facto states and their parent states usually have very different reasons for backing
engagement policies, based on their respective claims to self-determination and territorial …

In this paper, we focus on the Cyprus problem, a thorny and multi-dimensional problem, and
especially on the historic events in the years 1950-74 that led the island to the current …

In recent decades international and regional human rights norms have been increasingly
applied to constitutional provisions, revealing significant tensions between primary political …

It is rare for a discussion of natural resources to solely refer to natural resources. Rather, to
speak of natural resources often involves the entanglement of the matter with issues of a …

The design of a federation raises important questions which have found very different
answers in practice. An efficient assignment of public policies and revenues is important to …

This paper examines the story of Cyprus, which is depicted as an archetype of 'protracted
ethnic conflict'with an entrenched, albeit unlawful de facto partition. It re-interprets the story …

Man könnte sich an dieser Stelle einer Fülle metaphernreicher Zitate bemühen, um den
langen, aufregenden, mitunter steinigen Weg und wundersamen Abschluss einer …

In this paper, I argue that the Green Line or Buffer Zone in Cyprus has been functioning as a
de facto transitional justice mechanism since it was opened in the early 2000s. Specifically, I …