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The history of the Communist Party in Cyprus : colonialism, class and the Cypriot left
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ISBN: 0755626346 085773735X Year: 2014 Publisher: London : I.B. Tauris,

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"Cypriot pollitics are among the most contentious in Europe, and frequently attract the attention of the international community. Here, Yiannos Katsourides traces the historical development of the Cypriot party system, and in particular the growth of the Communist Party, now known as AKEL- the first formally organised political party on the island. The party was a political movement with a specific programme for radical reform that conficted both with the British Empire and the local establishment. It was treated with hostility and declared illegal. Based on new archival research, Katsorides addresses the social, religious, economic and political environment in which communist and working class politics existed on the island, and locates them within the context of a country connected inextricably with Turkey, Great Britain and Greece. This book will be of significant interest to anyone interested in the history of Cyprus, European communist movements or British colonialism and diplomacy in the Mediterranean."--Bloomsbury Publishing.


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European integration and the communist dilemma : communist party responses to Europe in Greece, Cyprus and Italy
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ISBN: 1317139518 131713950X 1283901889 1409436365 9781409436362 9781283901888 9781409436355 1409436357 1315580942 Year: 2013 Publisher: Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub. Co.,

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European Integration and the Communist Dilemma assesses the response of communist parties to European integration using three contrasting and comparatively significant case studies from Greece, Cyprus and Italy. These parties, in common with other radical parties in Europe, face a continuing strategic dilemma with regard to Europe through which larger questions about communist ideology and identity can be illuminated.


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Sara : prison memoir of a Kurdish revolutionary
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ISBN: 1786804921 9781786804921 9781786804938 178680493X 9781786804945 1786804948 0745339840 9780745339849 0745339832 9780745339832 0745339832 9780745339832 Year: 2019 Publisher: London : Pluto Press,


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Kurdistan: Achievable Reality or Political Mirage
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ISBN: 0994682573 0992199840 9780994682574 9780992199845 Year: 2019 Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Baltimore, Md. : Project Muse, Project MUSE,

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Spread across a number of countries around the world, and concentrated in four Middle East countries, the Kurdish people have you yearned for their own country for almost a century, but were forgotten when the region was carved up by the Sykes-Picot Agreement early in the twentieth century. Since then, the creation of a Kurdish state was high on the agenda of all Kurds. This was especially true when we consider the lot of Kurds in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. This book examines the political situation of Kurds in these four countries, looks at how this has changed particularly in the past decade, and considers what the future might hold for the Kurdish people and for the notion of an independent state of Kurdistan. It asks the question of whether a Kurdish state is achievable, or, even, desirable. The book is written for policymakers and academics interested in the Middle East region and in Kurdish politics in particular. It is written in an accessible way that makes it easy reading for anyone curious about the region and its people.


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Radical left parties in government : the cases of Syriza and Akel
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ISBN: 9781137588401 9781137588418 1137588403 1137588411 Year: 2016 Publisher: [London]: Palgrave MacMillan,

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This book provides a comparative analysis of how two radical left parties achieved government participation and their subsequent political experiences. In the face of the most severe and most prolonged crisis in the history of capitalism, it would be expected for radical left parties to seize the opportunity to promote their political agenda. Although reality has often confounded prognosis, two particular radical left parties – the Greek SYRIZA and the Cypriot AKEL – were elected to the highest government office. The author uses these two examples to engage with the broader question of what to expect when left-wing radicals achieve governance. This question is now of particular importance given the emergence of radical leftists in other parts of Europe, including Corbyn in the UK and Podemos in Spain. Yiannos Katsourides is Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cyprus. He has also taught at the European University Cyprus. His previous book, The History of the Communist Party in Cyprus: Colonialism, Class and the Cypriot Left, was published in July 2014. Dr Katsourides has been awarded fellowships from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies of the University of London and the Hellenic Observatory of the London School of Economics. .

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Right and left (Political science) --- Political parties --- Socialism --- History --- Greece --- Cyprus --- Politics and government --- Droite et gauche (Science politique) --- Synaspismos (Political party : Greece) --- Anorthōtiko Komma Ergazomenou Laou (Cyprus) --- Grèce --- Chypre --- Politique et gouvernement --- Europe-Politics and government. --- Political economy. --- Democracy. --- European Politics. --- International Political Economy. --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Europe—Politics and government. --- Synaspismos Rizospastikēs Aristeras (Greece) --- Anorthotiko Komma Ergazomenu Laou --- Syriza --- 2000-2099 --- Cyprus. --- Greece. --- Synaspismos Rizospastikēs Aristeras --- Partei --- Athen --- Griechenland --- 22.05.2012 --- -Anorthōtiko Κόμμα Εργαζόμενου Λαού --- Fortschrittspartei des Werktätigen Volkes --- Progressive Party of the Working People --- AKEL --- Zypern --- SYRIZA (Greece) --- AKEL (Cyprus) --- Anorthōtiko Komma Ergazomenou Laou --- Ανορθωτικό Κόμμα Εργαζόμενου Λαού (Cyprus) --- Συνασπισμός Ριζοσπαστικής Αριστεράς (Greece) --- al-Yūnān --- Ancient Greece --- Ellada --- Ellas --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grčija --- Grecia --- Gret͡sii͡ --- Hellada --- Hellas --- Hellenic Republic --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Kingdom of Greece --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Xila --- Yaṿan --- Yūnān --- Chipre --- Ciper --- Cipro --- Cypern --- Kıbrıs --- Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti --- Kipr --- Kipriaki Dhimokratia --- Kipŭr --- Kypriakē Dēmokratia --- Kypros --- Ostrov Kipr --- Qubru --- Republic of Cyprus --- Tsiprus --- Qubruṣ --- Κύπρος --- Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία --- Кипр --- Остров Кипр --- Cyprus (Turkish republic of northern Cyprus, 1983- ) --- Cyprus (Turkish federated state, 1975-1983) --- Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία --- Ελλάς --- Ελλάδα --- Греция --- اليونان --- يونان --- 希腊 --- Right and left (Political science) - Greece --- Right and left (Political science) - Cyprus --- Political parties - Greece - History - 21st century --- Political parties - Cyprus - History - 21st century --- Socialism - Greece - History - 21st century --- Socialism - Cyprus - History - 21st century --- Greece - Politics and government - 21st century --- Cyprus - Politics and government - 21st century --- Europe --- Politics and government. --- Politics --- Economics.


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Zones of rebellion : Kurdish insurgents and the Turkish state
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ISBN: 9780801453540 9780801456206 0801456207 0801453542 0801456193 9780801456190 9780801456190 Year: 2015 Publisher: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press,

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How do insurgents and governments select their targets? Which ideological discourses and organizational policies do they adopt to win civilian loyalties and control territory? Aysegul Aydin and Cem Emrence suggest that both insurgents and governments adopt a wide variety of coercive strategies in war environments. In Zones of Rebellion, they integrate Turkish-Ottoman history with social science theory to unveil the long-term policies that continue to inform the distribution of violence in Anatolia. The authors show the astonishing similarity in combatants' practices over time and their resulting inability to consolidate Kurdish people and territory around their respective political agendas. The Kurdish insurgency in Turkey is one of the longest-running civil wars in the Middle East. Zones of Rebellion demonstrates for the first time how violence in this conflict has varied geographically. Identifying distinct zones of violence, Aydin and Emrence show why Kurds and Kurdish territories have followed different political trajectories, guaranteeing continued strife between Kurdish insurgents and the Turkish state in an area where armed groups organized along ethnic lines have battled the central state since Ottoman times. Aydin and Emrence present the first empirical analysis of Kurdish insurgency, relying on original data. These new datasets include information on the location, method, timing, target, and outcome of more than ten thousand insurgent attacks and counterinsurgent operations between 1984 and 2008. Another data set registers civilian unrest in Kurdish urban centers for the same period, including nearly eight hundred incidents ranging from passive resistance to active challenges to Turkey's security forces. The authors argue that both state agents and insurgents are locked into particular tactics in their conduct of civil war and that the inability of combatants to switch from violence to civic politics leads to a long-running stalemate. Such rigidity blocks negotiations and prevents battlefield victories from being translated into political solutions and lasting agreements.

The collapse of communist power in Poland : strategic misperceptions and unanticipated outcomes
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ISBN: 9781134208012 1280377267 9786610377268 0203027760 1134208014 9780203027769 9781134207961 9781134208005 9780415368056 9780415674935 1134208006 0415368057 041567493X Year: 2006 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge,

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Based on extensive original research, including interviews with key participants, this book investigates the sudden and unforeseen collapse of communist power in Poland in 1989. It sets out the sequence of events, and examines the strategies of the various political groupings prior to the partially free election of June 1989. This volume argues that the specific negotiating strategies adopted by the communist party representatives in the Round Table discussions before the elections was a key factor in communism's collapse. The book shows that on many occasions, PZPR decision-makers i


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The PKK : coming down from the mountains
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ISBN: 1783600411 1783600403 178360039X 9781783600397 9781783600403 9781783600410 1783600381 9781783600380 1783600373 9781783600373 9781783600380 9781783600373 1350223395 Year: 2015 Publisher: London, England : [London, England] : Zed Books, Bloomsbury Publishing,


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Anatomy of a civil war : sociopolitical impacts of the Kurdish conflict in Turkey
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ISBN: 0472901168 0472124285 0472131001 9780472901166 9780472124282 Year: 2018 Publisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press,

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Anatomy of a Civil War demonstrates the destructive nature of war, ranging from the physical to the psychosocial, as well as war's detrimental effects on the environment. Despite such horrific aspects, evidence suggests that civil war is likely to generate multilayered outcomes. To examine the transformative aspects of civil war, Mehmet Gurses draws on an original survey conducted in Turkey, where a Kurdish armed group, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has been waging an intermittent insurgency for Kurdish self-rule since 1984. Findings from a probability sample of 2,100 individuals randomly selected from three major Kurdish-populated provinces in the eastern part of Turkey, coupled with insights from face-to-face in-depth interviews with dozens of individuals affected by violence, provide evidence for the multifaceted nature of exposure to violence during civil war. Just as the destructive nature of war manifests itself in various forms and shapes, wartime experiences can engender positive attitudes toward women, create a culture of political activism, and develop secular values at the individual level. In addition, wartime experiences seem to robustly predict greater support for political activism. Nonetheless, changes in gender relations and the rise of a secular political culture appear to be primarily shaped by wartime experiences interacting with insurgent ideology.


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The PKK-Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s Regional Politics : During and After the Cold War
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ISBN: 3319422197 3319422189 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book presents a theoretical framework to study dissident ethnic movements’ imagination of world politics, with a special focus on the PKK as a case study. Dissident ethnic movements are not only a challenge to the existing hegemonic power, but they also produce an alternative closed society based on different ethnic imagination. Instead of taking the armed PKK movement as a pure resistant, this book approaches contemporary Kurdish nationalism led by the PKK as a counter-hegemonic with a narrative that entails the emergence of a new kind of identity and sense of belonging, through which the PKK has been able to exercise its power. This book is an attempt to go beyond resistance-oriented approach, unveiling the two faces of the PKK’s representation of world politics: its transformative effect on the Kurds, and its exclusionary function towards traditional and alternative Kurdish subjects/institutions.

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Political science. --- Middle East --- Russia --- Europe, Eastern --- World politics. --- Political Science and International Relations. --- Political History. --- History of the Middle East. --- Russian, Soviet, and East European History. --- Middle Eastern Politics. --- Russian and Post-Soviet Politics. --- History. --- Politics and government. --- Kurds. --- Kurds --- Nationalism --- Nation-building --- Ethnic identity. --- Government relations. --- History --- Social aspects. --- Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê. --- Partiya Karkere Kürdistan --- PKK --- Kurdish Workers' Party --- Worker's Party of Kurdistan --- Apocular (Organization) --- Arbeiterpartei Kurdistans --- Partiya Karkerén Kürdistan --- Ergatiko Komma tou Kourdistan --- Kurdistan Isci Partisi --- Partito kurdo dei lavoratori --- Partito comunista kurdo --- Partî Kirêkaranî Kurdistan --- KİP --- Ḥizb al-ʻUmmāl al-Kūrdistānī --- Kongreya Azadî û Demokrasiya Kurdistan --- Turkey --- Ethnic relations. --- Stabilization and reconstruction (International relations) --- State-building --- Political development --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Ethnology --- Iranians --- Middle East-History. --- Russia-History. --- Middle East-Politics and governm. --- Russia-Politics and government. --- Colonialism --- Global politics --- International politics --- Political history --- World history --- Eastern question --- Geopolitics --- International organization --- Middle East—History. --- Russia—History. --- Europe, Eastern—History. --- Middle East—Politics and government. --- Russia—Politics and government.

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