The Cyprus Conflict: Diplomacy as Dissent, 1954-1974 (British School at Athens - Modern Gr nd Byzantine Studies)

While the Cyprus conflict is often framed as an insular communal tragedy or as the mechanical outcome of competing nationalisms, this study offers a more exacting reconstruction.Attentive to the plurality of forces shaping the conflict, it shows how the island functioned as a critical hinge in Greek-Turkish relations.Cyprus amplified insecurities, reordered strategic priorities, and transformed a localized dispute into a persistent bilateral fault line.It thus emerges not as an isolated anomaly, but as a catalyst whose reverberations have reshaped the regional equilibrium into the present.The book’s central contribution is a rigorously revisionist account of Greek policy-making.Kalpadakis demonstrates that alongside dominant irredentist narratives existed a coherent, strategically literate diplomatic current that interpreted Cyprus through its long-term implications for Greek-Turkish relations.Drawing on extensive archival research, the study traces this dissenting diplomacy from the d