Featherstone, Kevin 
ORCID: 0000-0001-5652-4338
(2000)
Cyprus and the onset of Europeanization: strategic usage, structural transformation and institutional adaptation.
South European Society and Politics, 5 (2).
pp. 141-164.
ISSN 1360-8746
Abstract
This article analyzes the EU's impact on Cyprus during its 'pre-accession' phase. The processes of Europeanization are considered in terms of the structural transformation of state-economy relations (in which 'empowerment' is diffuse and differentiated among domestic actors); and the adaptation of the state administration (to the demands of coordination; readjustment of competencies). Across a range of domestic reforms, EU pressure has been crucial to its pace, if not also its content. With the exception of the events of 1974, the stimulus from the EU represents the most far-reaching transformation of Cypriot society in four decades of independence. Europeanization also plays a major role in the discourse of key actors on foreign policy (where the EU is seen as a vital foreign policy lever). Yet the high expectations of the EU to 'unblock' relations with Turkey poses important strategic risks for the EU should it fail to deliver.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13608746.as... |
| Additional Information: | © 2000 Taylor & Francis |
| Divisions: | European Institute Hellenic Observatory |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DE The Mediterranean Region. The Greco-Roman World J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jan 2009 09:52 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 22:15 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/22070 |
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