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Spring 2008 witnessed the first positive signs of a thaw in relations between the two sides of the divided island of Cyprus since the dramatic failure of the Annan Plan in 2004. The historic meeting of the two Presidents of Cyprus and the symbolic opening of the Ledra Street border crossing in the heart of Nicosia may herald a bright new future for this Mediterranean island. Yet Cyprus has been in this situation before. What makes this new initiative different and why should it succeed where so many others have failed?Reunifying Cyprus is the first book to analyze fully the reasons for the continuing failure to re-unite the two states of Cyprus after over forty years of division. It focuses especially on the Annan Plan--the popular name for the UN initiative to find a "Comprehensive Solution to the Cyprus Problem in anticipation of Cyprus" accession to the EU--and the reasons for its ultimate failure. How did Cypriots receive the Annan Plan? What were the real or imagined flaws? Was this a missed opportunity? And what place does the Annan Plan have in future blueprints to reunify the island?Reunifying Cyprus will be invaluable for anyone interested in conflict resolution and international politics as well as students of the Eastern Mediterranean.
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ANDREKOS VARNAVA Andrekos Varnava is Assistant Professor in History at the European University, Cyprus. He was born and raised in Melbourne and completed his PhD in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne. His areas of expertise are Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean and British history, especially the history of the British Empire. His academic research focuses on issues ranging from imperialism, strategy and warfare to questions about cultural history, oral history, minority studies and identity formation. Andrekos Varnava’s articles have been published in a wide range of publications, including Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, The Cyprus Review the Annual of the Cyprus Research Centre and in the book Britain in Cyprus: Colonialism and Post-Colonialism 1878–2006. He is the author British Imperialism in Cyprus, 1878–1915: The Inconsequential Possession and he is also co-editor of The Minorities of Cyprus: Development Patterns and the Identity of the Internal-Exclusion. HUBERT FAUSTMANN Hubert Faustmann is Associate Professor in International Relations at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. He is the editor of the academic journal The Cyprus Review and president of the Cyprus Academic Forum (CAF). He has published extensively on the history and politics of modern Cyprus. Among his recent publications are ‘History in the Making? A New Drive for a Solution of the Cyprus Problem’ in Mediterranean Politics and ‘The Political Culture of the Republic of Cyprus’ in The Government and Politics of Cyprus. He is also the editor (with Nicos Peristianis) of Britain in Cyprus: Colonialism and Post-Colonialism 1878–2006 and (with James Ker-Lindsay) of The Government and Politics of the Republic of Cyprus.
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