Reconsidering the Role of the Security Dilemma in the Cyprus Crisis of 1974

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Explaining partition: Reconsidering the role of the security dilemma in the Cyprus crisis of 1974

Michael Todd Smith University of New Hampshire, Durham

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MICHAEL TODD SMITH BA, University of New Hampshire, 2007

THESIS

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Master of Arts

Political Science

December, 2009 UMI Number: 1481721

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IV ABSTRACT

EXPLAINING PARTITION: RECONSIDERING THE ROLE OF THE SECURITY DILEMMA IN THE CYPRUS CRISIS OF 1974

Michael Todd Smith

University of New Hampshire, December, 2009

In this thesis the proposed link between a security dilemma at the domestic-level of analysis and partition following ethnic conflict is examined in the context of the Cyprus crisis of 1974. The original framework of the argument being examined was offered by Chaim Kaufmann and is analyzed here by comparing and contrasting the history of Cyprus with the components of the framework. The thesis suggests that the framework does not adequately explain the partition in the case of Cyprus, as the history of that conflict does not reflect the components observable in the proposed linkage between the security dilemma and partition, nor does the situation fully reflect the traditional notion of a security dilemma.

V TABLE OF CONTENTS

DEDICATION iii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iv

ABSTRACT v

CHAPTER PAGE

I. EXPLAINING PARTITION: THEORY AND METHODOLOGY 1

Partition in Political Science 6

Efforts to Explain Partition with Theory and History 13

The Purpose of the Study 15

The Security Dilemma in Political Science 16

Linking the Security Dilemma to Partition 21

Testing the Link: Methodology 27

Study Organization 29

II. THE CASE O