Luca Zavagno is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the Eastern Mediterranean University of Northern Cyprus. Ozlem Caykent is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the Eastern Mediterranean University of Northern Cyprus.

• List of ContributionsAcknowledgements1. Introduction2. The Ottoman Caesar: Mehmed II's Strategies of Possession, 1453-14813. Security or Glory? Some Sixteenth-Century Views on the Necessity of Conquering Rhodes 4. The Clash of Rum and Frenk: Orthodox-Catholic Interactions on the Aegean Islands in the Mid-Seventeenth to Mid-Eighteenth Centuries and their Impact in the Ottoman Capital5. Challenging Authority and Transforming Politics: A New Perspective on the Muslim and Non-Muslim Experiences in Ottoman Crete, 1896-976. The Minoans, the Ottomans and the British: The Eastern Mediterranean as an Imperial Space7. The Wonderful Adventures of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition: Einar Gjerstad, Erik Sjoqvist, the Swedish Institute in Rome and the Cyprus Expedition8. Looting and Losing the Archaeological Heritage of Cyprus 9. The Sea that Binds Us: the EU's Problematic Normative Capacity and the Union for the Mediterranean

Luca Zavagno is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the Eastern Mediterranean University of Northern Cyprus. Ozlem Caykent is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the Eastern Mediterranean University of Northern Cyprus.

• List of ContributionsAcknowledgements1. Introduction2. The Ottoman Caesar: Mehmed II's Strategies of Possession, 1453-14813. Security or Glory? Some Sixteenth-Century Views on the Necessity of Conquering Rhodes 4. The Clash of Rum and Frenk: Orthodox-Catholic Interactions on the Aegean Islands in the Mid-Seventeenth to Mid-Eighteenth Centuries and their Impact in the Ottoman Capital5. Challenging Authority and Transforming Politics: A New Perspective on the Muslim and Non-Muslim Experiences in Ottoman Crete, 1896-976. The Minoans, the Ottomans and the British: The Eastern Mediterranean as an Imperial Space7. The Wonderful Adventures of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition: Einar Gjerstad, Erik Sjoqvist, the Swedish Institute in Rome and the Cyprus Expedition8. Looting and Losing the Archaeological Heritage of Cyprus 9. The Sea that Binds Us: the EU's Problematic Normative Capacity and the Union for the Mediterranean

Luca Zavagno is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the Eastern Mediterranean University of Northern Cyprus. Ozlem Caykent is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the Eastern Mediterranean University of Northern Cyprus.

• List of ContributionsAcknowledgements1. Introduction2. The Ottoman Caesar: Mehmed II's Strategies of Possession, 1453-14813. Security or Glory? Some Sixteenth-Century Views on the Necessity of Conquering Rhodes 4. The Clash of Rum and Frenk: Orthodox-Catholic Interactions on the Aegean Islands in the Mid-Seventeenth to Mid-Eighteenth Centuries and their Impact in the Ottoman Capital5. Challenging Authority and Transforming Politics: A New Perspective on the Muslim and Non-Muslim Experiences in Ottoman Crete, 1896-976. The Minoans, the Ottomans and the British: The Eastern Mediterranean as an Imperial Space7. The Wonderful Adventures of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition: Einar Gjerstad, Erik Sjoqvist, the Swedish Institute in Rome and the Cyprus Expedition8. Looting and Losing the Archaeological Heritage of Cyprus 9. The Sea that Binds Us: the EU's Problematic Normative Capacity and the Union for the Mediterranean