Cyprus : the search for a solution / David Hannay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hannay, David, 1935-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cyprus--Politics and government--1960-.

Cyprus.

Politics and government.

Cyprus--Foreign relations.

International relations.

Physical Description:

ix, 256 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Summary:

The Cyprus Problem has defeated all attempts to resolve it for more than forty years. From 1996 onwards the UN, with strong support from the US, the UK and other EU members, mounted the most sustained of all the efforts to reach an agreement, so that a re-united Cyprus could join the EU in May 2004. Although it came closer to success than any previous attempt, this one failed too.

From his unique position as the former British Special Representative for Cyprus, David Hannay examines the underlying difficulty of finding a basis which both sides could accept; and the complex inter-relationships between these negotiations and the applications to join the European Union of both Cyprus and Turkey. Hannay concludes that the Cyprus problem, for all its complexity and intractability, is not insoluble; and that Turkey's attempts at European Union membership by definition requires a Cyprus solution. This is the story of a very modern, multi-dimensional negotiation which came close to success but in the end, as so many previous Cyprus negotiations had done, failed. In the process of telling, Lord Hannay has produced a revealing, first-hand account of a profoundly complex situation which is an exceptional reference tool for all those interested in the modern history of the region.

Contents:

1 The Historical Background: 1960-1996 1

2 The Players 10

3 The Issues 27

4 1996: Getting a Show on the Road 48

5 1997: Missiles and Missed Opportunities 70

6 1998: Damage Limitation 84

7 1999: Getting the Show on the Road Again 96

8 2000: Proximity, Equality, Walk-Out 119

9 2001: Trench Warfare 144

10 2002: Countdown to Copenhagen 157

11 2003: Extra Time 197

12 Epilogue: The Curtain Falls 220

13 What Went Wrong; and Will It Ever Go Right? 228

14 Envoi 239.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1850436657

OCLC:

56640607

Publisher Number:

9781850436652