{"id":2504,"date":"2014-12-10T23:58:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T21:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsijournal.eu\/?p=2504"},"modified":"2021-01-20T13:22:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T11:22:31","slug":"the-psychological-and-symbolic-factor-of-great-britains-geostrategy-in-the-cyprus-suez-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/?p=2504","title":{"rendered":"THE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SYMBOLIC FACTOR OF GREAT BRITAIN&#8217;S GEOSTRATEGY IN THE CYPRUS-SUEZ ISSUE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Professor Ioannis Th. MAZIS<\/strong><br \/>\nFaculty of Turkish Studies and Modern Asian Studies<br \/>\nSchool of Economic and Political Sciences<br \/>\nNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens<br \/>\nmazis@her.forthnet.gr; yianmazis@turkmas.uoa.gr<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the present paper I argue that, since Cyprus came under the British rule and for at least seven decades, Britain did not consider Cyprus a \u201cterritory of major strategic importance for the Crown\u201d. I also argue that the policy makers of colonial Britain probably considered this island one of the \u201cpoor colonies\u201d, since it did not have raw material deposits or any kind of industrial infrastructure. Thus, I suggest that Greek researchers should examine how Great Britain was perceiving the strategic importance of Cyprus until the end of World War II and, therefore, should not insist on blaming the Greek side that, supposedly, did not take into account Britain\u2019s sensitivity and \u201cunwisely sought the Union (Enosis) of Cyprus with Greece, which annoyed Britain and led to the well-known traumatic events\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsijournal.eu\/ARTICLES\/December_2014\/8.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read more<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Ioannis Th. MAZIS Faculty of Turkish Studies and Modern Asian Studies School of Economic and Political Sciences National and Kapodistrian University of Athens mazis@her.forthnet.gr; yianmazis@turkmas.uoa.gr Abstract In the present paper I argue that, since Cyprus came under the British rule and for at least seven decades, Britain did not consider Cyprus a \u201cterritory of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3833,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions\/3833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}