Vassilis K. Fouskas is Professor of International Relations at Richmond University, London and the founding editor of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. He is the author of Cyprus (Pluto, 2009), The Fall of the US Empire (Pluto, 2012) and Zones of Conflict (Pluto, 2003).Alex Tackie is Senior Lecturer in Economics at Kingston University, UK. He has previously collaborated on published work on Greece and Cyprus and is the author of Cyprus (Pluto, 2009).

'This study offers a new intellectual ethos to uncover the complex historical facts and explain the current deadlock in Cyprus'

• AcknowledgmentsChronicle of the Cyprus crisisIntroduction1. Narrating Cyprus2. The Partitions of Cyprus after 19743. The 'Isolation' of Turkish CypriotsConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex