The London Review of Books
April 24, 2008
The Divisions of Cyprus
Perry Anderson
“Enlargement, widely regarded as the greatest single achievement of the
European Union since the end of the Cold War, and occasion for more or
less
unqualified self-congratulation, has left one inconspicuous thorn in the
palm of Brussels. The furthest east of all the EU’s new acquisitions, even
if the most prosperous and democratic, has been a tribulation to its
establishment, one that neither fits the uplifting narrative of the
deliverance of captive nations from Communism, nor furthers the strategic
aims of Union diplomacy, indeed impedes them. Cyprus is, in truth, an
anomaly in the new Europe.”
Full article at:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n08/ande01_.html
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