Ilia Xypolia Livres

The book critically examines how human rights discourse shapes US foreign policy, focusing on the State Department's Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. It argues that these reports serve to legitimize a specific narrative that aligns with US interests, diverging from international human rights standards. The recent addition of "corruption" as a human rights issue is explored, revealing its narrow interpretation as a public sector problem in developing nations, which ultimately supports a neoliberal imperialist agenda and influences global discourse within international organizations.

As Cyprus experienced British imperial rule between 1878 and 1960, Greek and Turkish nationalism on the island developed at different times and at different speeds. Relations between Turkish Cypriots and the British on the one hand, and Greek Cypriots and the British on the other, were often asymmetrical with the Muslim community undergoing an enormous change in terms of national/ethnic identity and class characteristics. Turkish Cypriot nationalism developed belatedly as a militant nationalist and anti-Enosis movement. This book explores the relationship between the emergence of Turkish national identity and British colonial rule in the 1920s and 1930s.