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[cypezokyli]

United States Policy towards Cyprus, 1954–1974: Removing the Greek-Turkish Bone of Contention. By Claude Nicolet. (Mannheim: Bibliopolis, 2001. 483 pp. € 42.90, ISBN 3-933925-20-7.)

a very interesting book i found in our library.
it challanges the traditional Greek Cypriot opinion of "the american conspiracy".

it presents a detail analysis of the US foreign policy - stressing contradictions and discontinuity absence of interest etc. it does not portray an altruist foreign policy, but as one should expect a foreign policy based on the interest of the US. it supports that the main major mistakes of the US were results mainly of inability and absence of coordination between different departments.

certainly worths reading. it challanges many of the mythos we carry

Quote: This careful, detailed analysis of U.S. policy toward Cyprus begins in 1954, when Great Britain evacuated Suez and, turning to Cyprus, continued to grapple with the disparity between its strategic aspirations and the emergence of a postcolonial world. It ends in 1974, when a coup in Cyprus instigated by the ruling junta in Greece led to a Turkish invasion of the island and, ultimately, its partition. The book's analytical focus is on the evolving policies of a U.S. government initially reluctant to assume responsibility for the complex Cyprus problem and on the almost endless, mostly pragmatic, and sometimes inept initiatives subsequently undertaken to remove it as a bone of contention between its twoNATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) allies in the eastern Mediterranean.

[100%cypriot]

cypezokyli wrote: United States Policy towards Cyprus, 1954–1974: Removing the Greek-Turkish Bone of Contention. By Claude Nicolet. (Mannheim: Bibliopolis, 2001. 483 pp. € 42.90, ISBN 3-933925-20-7.)

a very interesting book i found in our library.
it challanges the traditional Greek Cypriot opinion of "the american conspiracy".

it presents a detail analysis of the US foreign policy - stressing contradictions and discontinuity absence of interest etc. it does not portray an altruist foreign policy, but as one should expect a foreign policy based on the interest of the US. it supports that the main major mistakes of the US were results mainly of inability and absence of coordination between different departments.

certainly worths reading. it challanges many of the mythos we carry

Quote: This careful, detailed analysis of U.S. policy toward Cyprus begins in 1954, when Great Britain evacuated Suez and, turning to Cyprus, continued to grapple with the disparity between its strategic aspirations and the emergence of a postcolonial world. It ends in 1974, when a coup in Cyprus instigated by the ruling junta in Greece led to a Turkish invasion of the island and, ultimately, its partition. The book's analytical focus is on the evolving policies of a U.S. government initially reluctant to assume responsibility for the complex Cyprus problem and on the almost endless, mostly pragmatic, and sometimes inept initiatives subsequently undertaken to remove it as a bone of contention between its twoNATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) allies in the eastern Mediterranean.

hmmmmm

[repulsewarrior]

The guy Dulles... he wanted to divide the island, very much like it is today...

a few hundred thousand would be displaced, [and I wager nukes would be buried in the mountains north].

an idea which followed the Turkish proposals of the time, before 1960, with British radar and aircraft in the South (I think), the Cold War raging.