The Center for European and International Affairs of the University of Nicosia

is organizing a two-days Conference entitled

 

THE CYPRUS PROBLEM, ITS SOLUTION AND THE BROADER IMPLICATIONS

 

Friday, March 11, 2016

09:10 – 19:15

Saturday, March 12, 2016

09:00 – 10:40

 

UNESCO Amphitheatre, Europa Building

University of Nicosia

 

 

 

Friday, March 11, 2016

09:10 – 09:40              Coffee and Registration


Welcoming Address:

09:40 – 09:50                Andreas Theophanous

Professor of Political Economy, Head of the Department of

European Studies and International Relations, President of

the Center for European and International Affairs, University of Nicosia, Cyprus


Opening Address:

09:50 – 10:10                Michalis Attalides

Professor of Sociology, Department of European Studies

and International Relations, Rector, University of Nicosia, Cyprus


I.  HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Chair:                           Andreas Theophanous

 

10:10 – 10:30                Emilios Solomou

Historian, Senior Fellow, Center for European and International Affairs,

Executive Vice President for Administration

University of Nicosia, Cyprus and

Hubert Faustmann

Associate Professor for History and

Political Science, University of Nicosia, Cyprus

LESSONS FROM THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE

 

10:30 – 10:50                Ahmet Djavit An

Political Activist and Author, Nicosia, Cyprus

HOW TO AVOID PARTITION THOUGH FEDERALIZATION OF

THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS?

 

10:50 – 11:10                Petros Savvides

Defense Analyst, PhD cand. Modern History, MPhil History, Associated with the Center for European and International Affairs and the Department of European Studies and International Relations, University of Nicosia, Cyprus

ΤHE STRATEGIC AMBITIONS OF ANKARA IN CYPRUS: FROM NIHAT ERIM, TO BARBAROS AND ISLAMIZATION


11:10 – 11:40                Discussion


11:40 – 11:50                Coffee Break

 

 

II.  ISSUES OF GOVERNANCE AND POLITICAL ECONOMY

Chair:                           Constantinos Adamides

 

11:50 – 12:10                Constantinos Mavroeidis

Attorney-at-Law, LL.M., Athens, Greece

THE INSTITUTIONAL CONTINUITY OF THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS:

A POLITICO-JURIDICAL IMPERATIVE

 

12:10 – 12:30                Soteris Kattos

PhD Political Sociology, Associated with the Center for European and International Affairs, University of Nicosia, Cyprus

THE CYPRUS CONFLICT, PROSPECTS OF RECONCILIATION AND THE POSSIBILITY OF GOVERNANCE: A THEORETICAL ACCOUNT/APPROACH

 

12:30 – 12:50                Farid Mirbagheri

Professor of International Relations,

Department of European Studies

and International Relations, University of Nicosia, Cyprus

THE CYPRUS SOLUTION: A TWO-TIER APPROACH

 

12:50 – 13:20                Discussion

 

13:20 – 16:30                Break

 

Chair:                           Michalis Kontos

 

16:30 – 16:50                G. Alan Tar

Board of Governors Professor, Department of Political Science

Director, Center for State Constitutional Studies, Rutgers University, USA

RESOLVING THE CYPRUS CRISIS: CAN THE EXPERIENCE OF OTHER COUNTRIES HELP?

 

16:50 – 17:10                Umut Bozkurt

Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations,

Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Cyprus

GOING BEYOND A NEOLIBERAL SOLUTION: ENVISAGING ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIC STRATEGIES IN A POST-SETTLEMENT CYPRUS

 

17:10 – 17:30                Andreas Theophanous

Professor of Political Economy, Head of the Department of European Studies and International Relations, President of the Center for European and International Affairs, University of Nicosia, Cyprus

WHAT MODEL FOR CYPRUS? ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND STRATEGIC CONSIDERATIONS

 

17:30 – 18:00                Discussion

 

18:00 – 18:15                Coffee Break

 

 

III.  STRATEGIC CONSIDERATIONS

Chair:                           Andreas Theophanous


18:15 – 18:35                Muhittin Tolga ÖzsaÄŸlam

Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations, Near East University, Nicosia, Cyprus

SECURITY PERCEPTIONS OF TURKISH CYPRIOTS

 

18:35 – 18:55                Michalis Kontos

Associated with the Department of Law and the Department of European Studies and International Relations, University of Nicosia, Cyprus

CYPRUS AND THE TURKISH QUEST FOR HEGEMONY

 

18:55 – 19:15                Discussion

 

 

Saturday, March 12, 2016

09:00 – 09:30              Coffee and Registration


Chair:                           Petros Savvides


09:30 – 09:50                Constantinos Adamides

Assistant Professor of International Studies, University of Nicosia, Cyprus and

Odysseas Christou

Assistant Professor of Government, International Law and

International Relations, University of Nicosia, Cyprus

COULD THE SOLUTION OF THE CYPRUS PROBLEM ALLOW

ENERGY CONSIDERATIONS TO ALTER REGIONAL GEOPOLITICAL RELATIONS?

 

09:50 – 10:10                Theodoros Tsakiris

Assistant Professor of Geopolitics and Hydrocarbons, University of Nicosia, Cyprus

UNLOCKING THE HYDROCARBON POTENTIAL OF THE REPUBLIC OF

CYPRUS: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC PRECONDITIONS

 

10:10 – 10:30                Discussion

 

10:30 – 10:40                Andreas Theophanous

 

CONCLUDING REMARKS

 

 

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