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Nationalism in the Troubled Triangle

Cyprus, Greece and Turkey

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Ayhan Aktar

    1. Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey

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  2. Niyazi Kızılyürek

    1. Department of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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  3. Umut Özkırımlı

    1. Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
      The Hellenic Observatory, London School of Economics, UK

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Part of the book series: New Perspectives on South-East Europe (NPSE)

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About this book

Nationalism in the Troubled Triangle is the first systematic study of nationalism in Cyprus, Greece and Turkey from a comparative perspective. Bringing scholars from Greece, Turkey and both sides of Cyprus (and beyond) together, the book provides a critical account of nation-building processes and nationalist politics in all three countries.

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Bringing History Back into Nationalism?

    1. Bringing History Back into Nationalism?

      • John Breuilly
      Pages 1-17

  3. Turkish and Greek Nationalisms: Past and Present

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Conversion of a ‘Country’ into a ‘Fatherland’: The Case of Turkification Examined, 1923–1934

      • Ayhan Aktar
      Pages 21-35

    3. The Use and Abuse of Archaeology and Anthropology in Formulating the Turkish Nationalist Narrative

      • Suavi Aydın
      Pages 36-46

    4. Turkish Nationalism Reconsidered: The ‘Heaviness’ of Statist Patriotism in Nation-Building

      • Günay Göksu Özdoğan
      Pages 47-60

    5. Dismantling the Millet: Religion and National Identity in Contemporary Greece

      • Renée Hirschon
      Pages 61-75

    6. Nationalism in Greece and Turkey: Modernity, Enlightenment, Westernization

      • Spyros A. Sofos, Umut Özkırımlı
      Pages 76-97

    7. Nostalgia, Self-Exile and the National Idea: The Case of Andrea Mustoxidi and the Early Nineteenth-Century Heptanesians of Italy

      • Konstantina Zanou
      Pages 98-111

    8. Narratives of Diplomats: Representations of Nationalism and Turkish Foreign Policy in Cyprus, 1970–1991

      • Gül İnanç
      Pages 112-129

    9. Alternative Forms of Nationalism: Superiority through Law in Greek Foreign Policy

      • Harry Tzimitras
      Pages 130-145

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 236-276
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey

    Ayhan Aktar, Umut Özkırımlı

  • Department of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

    Niyazi Kızılyürek

  • The Hellenic Observatory, London School of Economics, UK

    Umut Özkırımlı

About the editors

AYHAN AKTAR, Professor in the Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey.

N?YAZ? KIZILYÜREK, Associate Professor in the Department of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cyprus, Cyprus.

UMUT ÖZKIRIMLI, Director of Turkish-Greek Studies, Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey and Senior Research Fellow at LSEE (Research on South East Europe), London School of Economics, UK.

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