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Anastaslou: Focusing on emergent post-nationalist Press) trends. Left, antl-enosis Turkish Cypriot demonstra­ tions called for partition. Below, a demonstration for Dr Harry Anastasiou eno,.is by Greek Cypriot youth to counter the Turkish analyses the historical Cypriot protests ONG-standing ethno~nationalism in Cy­ Cypriot peace prus, a country mired in conflict in Cyprus, the scholar and prac­ a decades-long Ie titioner Dr Harry fuelled by ethnic rlv L Harry Anastasiou's anal Anastasiou. professor in logic of nationalist of Cyprus' historic con the Conflict Resolution examines the logic of na· Graduate ~:0:':?":"':~~ ~:-..:.;::..j,!:g a5:::::-5:-:.~ thinking, the rise of ar:.d :l':.~ Studies ProgTamme at ;~h ~~;iO;~~~~.~·· a~i t;~c~'~ Portland State Univer­ the division of Greek and Greek and Turkish sity and member of the Turkish Cypriots since the Board of FUture Worlds country won independence Centre has published The trom British rule in 1960. In the first oftwo vo:umes, nationalism and traces Broken Olive Branch Vol­ Anastasiou offers a detailed umes I and II. The work portrait of Cyprus's dual na· is published by Syracuse tionalisms, identifying the the division of Greek University Press, New ways in which nationalist York. under its Peace and ideologies have undermined Conflict Studies section. the relations between Greek and Turkish Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots. In From the perspective of the context of regional and conflict analysis and peace global confiicts. he demon­ studies The Broken Olive strates how the ethnic ri~ since the country won Branch presents a fresh vaIry was largeJ,y engineered analysis of the Cyprus con­ by the leaders of each com­ flict, new insights on the in~ munity and consolidated by independence from ftuence of nationalism, and the nationalist configuration the prospects for peace. of political culture. Taking The Broken Olive Branch a multilevel approach, he British rule in 1960 examines the dynamics of maps out the impasse and changes in ethnonational­ ism over time. In the second volume. Anastasiou focuses on emer­ gent post'nationailst trends, their implications for peace, 'He demonstrates how the ethnic anj recent attempts to reach mutually acceptable agreements between Greek rivalry was largely engineered by and Turkish Cypriots. He documents the transforma· the leaders of each community tion of , Cyprus, and within the context of Europeanisation and glo­ and consolidated by tile nationalist balisation. While leaders of both communities have falled to resolve the conflict, configuration of political culture' Anastasiou argues that the accession of Cyprus into the has creat~ ed a structure and process that prorruses a multiethnic. democratic Cyprus.

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