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THE FALLACIOUS IMPERIAL GEOPOLITICS OF EU ENLARGEMENT: THE CASE OF CYPRUS
Author(s) -
BOEDELTJE FREERK J.,
KRAMSCH OLIVIER THOMAS,
VAN HOUTUM HENK,
PLUG ROALD
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-9663
pISSN - 0040-747X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2007.00381.x
Subject(s) - geopolitics , library science , political science , computer science , law , politics
On 1 May 2004, the island of Cyprus joined the European Union, along with the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. De facto however, only the Greek-Cypriot Republic of Cyprus was admitted to the European Union. In the case of Cyprus, the EU enlargement process had failed in finding a political solution to the divided status of the island that has existed for more than thirty years now. This paper reports on this failed geopolitics of the EU. We argue that it is notably the imperialistic rationality and logics that was laid down by the EU on the divided island that led to its failure.