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_aCasaglia, Anna _951152 |
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| 245 | _aNorthern Cyprus as an ‘inner neighbour’: A critical analysis of European Union enlargement in Cyprus / | ||
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_bSage, _c2019. |
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| 300 | _aVol 26, issue 1, 2019 : (37-49 p.). | ||
| 520 | _aThis article analyses the impact of Cyprus’s accession to the European Union (EU) on the northern part of the island, and tackles the political actorness of the EU with regard to the enduring Cypriot conflict. Much literature has critically analysed the EU enlargement process, underlining its imperialistic features and its problematic nature. At the same time, scholars have highlighted the EU’s difficulties in acting as a political actor and its impact on situations of ethno-national conflict. This article brings together these critical aspects by analysing them in the peculiar context of Cyprus. It retraces the negotiation process and the Turkish Cypriots’ in/visibility throughout it, and presents research conducted following Cyprus’s accession in three different periods between 2008 and 2015. We propose an interpretation of Northern Cyprus as an ‘inner neighbour’ of the EU, because of its anomalous and liminal status, the suspended application of the acquis communautaire, the unresolved conflict and the ambiguity of the border management of the Green Line, the line of partition between north and south. All these problematic features of Northern Cyprus’s situation are examined in detail to identify the unique position of this entity within the EU. In addition to this, and supporting the importance of a bottom-up understanding of the EU’s normative and symbolic projection, the article presents the opinions of Turkish Cypriot citizens about their expectations before and after 2004, and how their ideas and imaginaries related to the EU have evolved and interacted with the process of Europeanisation. | ||
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_aCyprus accession process, _951153 |
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_aCyprus conflict, _951154 |
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| 650 | _2 European Union actorness, | ||
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_aEuropean Union enlargement, _951155 |
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_aimaginaries, _949816 |
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_aTurkish Cypriots, _951156 |
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_08870 _916503 _dLondon Sage Publications Ltd. 1994 _tEuropean urban and regional studies _x0969-7764 |
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| 856 | _uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0969776418756933 | ||
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