Thread by @ZenonasTziarras

#Book Chapter:

Foreign Policy Maturity and Grand #Strategy: The Way Forward for the Republic of #Cyprus.

Issues covered

What's Foreign Policy (Maturity)?
What's grand strategy?
How r they related?
Grand strategy for small states?
How's Cyprus special?>

link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

This chapter concludes the book. It takes the rest of the chapters into account to assess the maturity of the Republic of #Cyprus’ foreign policy, and examines whether the RoC has—or is able to develop—grand strategic capacities.

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I argue that the #Cyprus Problem has been inevitably and negatively affecting grand strategic formulation in the RoC even as it complicates and hinders the country’s day-to-day foreign policy and diplomatic practice.

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From this perspective, the popular understanding that the RoC can have long-term foreign policies or a grand strategy without the resolution of the #Cyprus Problem is questioned. To that end two schools of thought in the literature are identified and countered. >>

Lastly, I argue that the RoC should not stop engaging in capacity building and a pro-active foreign policy while having the resolution of the Cyprus Problem as a strategic objective.

This isn't the only but it's the most comprehensive approach to #Cyprus & grand strategy.

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