
Charalambos Demetriou
Associate Professor | Senior Lecturer

Divide and rule Cyprus? Decolonisation as process
Author
Summary, in English
Instances of decolonisation can be considered processes featuring complicated interactions that are both path-depended and open-ended. This perspective contrasts with reductionist epistemologies, particularly economistic ones. Viewing the decolonisation of Cyprus in processual terms, this article argues that the process at hand was crucially shaped by the colonial strategy of divide-and-rule and that the process’s complicated flow of interactions obscured the British government’s ability to assess the unfolding predicament clearly, failing most particularly to rank its options optimally by misreading the option of granting independence to Cyprus.
Department/s
- Sociology
Publishing year
2019-08-04
Language
English
Pages
403-420
Publication/Series
Commonwealth and Comparative Politics
Volume
57
Issue
4
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Topic
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Keywords
- British Empire
- Greece
- National Movements
- Turkey
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1466-2043