Cyprus is a postcolonial island known for natural gas reserves and ethnic divisions. This volume presents a fresh perspective on the Cyprus problem by examining the societal transformations taking place within the island: socioeconomic development, population transitions and migration, and rapidly changing social and political institutions.

HAKAN ASLAN Instructor at ?stanbul Bilgi University, Turkey GIORGOS CHARALAMBOUS Associate Lecturer at the University of Cyprus and Frederick University, Cyprus ELIAS IOAKIMOGLOU Senior Research Associate for the Cyprus Labor Institute (INEK-PEO) and the Greek Labor Institute (INE/GSEE) NIYAZI KIZILYUREK Professor in the Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies Department at the University of Cyprus TASSOS KYPRIANIDIS Consulting professional in Athens, Greece and a member of the Editorial Secretariat of the journal ?????? (Theseis) DILEK LATIF Lecturer in the International Relations Department of Near East University, Cyprus NEOPHYTOS LOIZIDES Lecturer in International Conflict Analysis at the University of Kent, UK JOHN MILIOS Professor of Political Economy and the History of Economic thought at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece ANDREAS PANAYIOTOU Assistant Professor at Frederick University, Cyprus PANAYIOTIS PANTELIDES Academic board member of the Cyprus Labor Institute and a founding member of the Cyprus Institute of Critical Social Research and Dialogue ED ROOKSBY Teaches Political Theory at Southampton University and Economic History at Portsmouth University, UK ARI SITAS Senior Professor of Sociology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa EMINE TAHSIN Teaches Development Economics courses at ?stanbul University, Turkey