Nationalism in the Troubled Triangle

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

4. Nationalism in Cyprus: Past and Present

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147

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   2. History, Myth and Nationalism: The Retrospective Force of National Roles within a Myth-Constructed Past

      • Michalis N. Michael

      Pages 149-159

   3. Securing the Office of Müftü: Nationalism, Religion and the Turks of Cyprus

      • Altay Nevzat

      Pages 160-174

   4. Rauf Denktaş: Fear and Nationalism in the Turkish Cypriot Community

      • Niyazi Kızılyürek

      Pages 175-193

   5. The Complexities of Greek Nationalism in its Cypriot Version

      • Sia Anagnostopoulou

      Pages 194-203

   6. The Referendum of 24 April 2004: A Resounding Victory for Greek Cypriot Nationalism

      • Caesar V. Mavratsas

      Pages 204-217

   7. AKEL: Between Nationalism and ‘Anti-Imperialism’

      • Stavros Tombazos

      Pages 218-235

5. Back Matter

   Pages 236-276

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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.

• foreign policy
• national identity
• nationalism
• Policy
• politics

• 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

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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