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Introduction -- The basic parameters of the dispute -- The Aegean dispute in the context of international treaties and international courts' judgements. A critical appraisal -- The formation of the dispute in the 1970s and 1980s -- The Post-Cold War era -- The rise of the AKP party and Turkey's grand strategy in the 21th century -- The 2019-2020 maritime borders delimitation agreements in the Eastern Mediterranean and their implications -- A paradigm change in the governance of the Aegean Sea -- Conclusions.

Intro -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Theoretical and Analytical Framework -- References -- Primary Sources -- Greece -- United States -- Published Primary Sources and Archival Documents -- Greece's Security Problems in the Cold War -- The Role of the Left-Wing Parties -- References -- Primary Sources -- Greece -- NATO-Archive -- United Kingdom -- United States -- Published Primary Sources and Archival Documents -- Interviews -- Greece and Eastern Europe in the 1950s and 1960s -- The Economic Factor -- Political Rapprochements and the New Balance of Power -- References -- Primary Sources -- Greece -- Germany -- United States -- United Kingdom -- Published Primary Sources and Archival Documents -- The Cyprus Problem as Variable in the Soviet Bloc's Policy in the Eastern Mediterranean -- References -- Primary Sources -- Cyprus -- Germany -- Greece -- United States -- United Kingdom -- Published Primary Sources and Archival Documents -- The Unholy Alliance: Athens Military Regime's Ties with the Communist Bloc -- References -- Primary Sources -- Germany -- United States -- United Kingdom -- Published Archival Documents and Primary Sources -- Interviews -- The Ostpolitik in the Context of the Country's Multidimensional Foreign Policy in the 1970s -- References -- Primary Sources -- United Kingdom -- United States -- Greece -- Interviews -- PASOK's Foreign Policy Course Towards the Socialist Countries in the 1980s -- References -- Primary Sources -- Germany -- Greece -- United Kingdom -- United States -- Published Archival Documents and Primary Sources -- Interviews -- Conclusions.

As is widely known, Cyprus was the place used as springboard for all the US-British air operations in the region surrounding it, in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya and so on. However, neither the Republic of Cyprus, nor the breakaway regime in the north of the island had anything to do with that. The logistical hub for those activities were the so-called Sovereign British Military Bases conceded to Britain in the 1960 Zurich Agreement in return for the independence Cyprus gained in the same year. Cyprus is the only place on the planet where the United Kingdom maintains as a legacy of British colonial rule sovereign military bases and a military presence secured as a result of a multilateral treaty of guarantee far surpassing those rights that the United Kingdom had managed to have recognized in the installation of military bases in Burma, Malta and Ceylon. Nevertheless, two things are very remarkable: why has the United States, despite its numerous other facilities in the Near East, preferred those bases for its activities? Why have the British clung on to their bases in Cyprus - in spite of the retreat of British forces from so many bases originally built by the United Kingdom in so many places around the world since 1960, although in comparison with other overseas garrisons still left of the British Empire, the one in Cyprus is the biggest and the most expensive to maintain? The article tries to illuminate the background of this paradox. It examines, based on primary and secondary sources from several countries, the historical evolution and regime of the UK Sovereign Military Bases on Cyprus, which constitute an exceptional case in both international relations and international law. It argues that the operation of the British bases in Cyprus has been exceeding the legal framework determined by the Treaty of Establishment and hardly complies with the British obligation to decolonize the entire territory of the island of Cyprus as well as the right of the Cypriot people to self-determination. Adapted from the source document.

"In Griechenland ist die Zunahme europakritischer Tendenzen zu beobachten. Auslöser sind die von der Troika oktroyierten Sparmaßnahmen. Das Land sieht sich aber auch im Umgang mit der illegalen Einwanderung in die EU allein gelassen." (Autorenreferat)

Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über Interessengruppen und das Verbändesystem Zyperns. Der Versuch, den enormen Einfluss der Interessengruppen Zyperns anhand der Terminologie der herrschenden westlichen Politikwissenschaft darzustellen, stellt ein schwieriges Unterfangen dar. Denn die auf der Insel präsenten, bisweilen sogar dominanten Denkstrukturen und Handlungsformen setzen sich aus Elementen europäischer, mediterraner, kolonialer und postkolonialer Traditionen zusammen. Der Beitrag geht zunächst auf die historische Entwicklung sozialer Verbände und politischer Parteien auf Zypern ein und erläutert dann die rechtlichen Grundlagen der Vereinigungs- und Koalitionsfreiheit. Anschließend wird die Struktur des Verbändesystems und der Organisationen vorgestellt. Das abschließende Kapitel widmet sich dem politischen System Zyperns und skizziert den politischen Einfluss von politischen Parteien und Verbänden. (ICB2)