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In Greece, the Cyprus question has defined national identity, but it has also acted as a demarcation line between distinct political and ideological stances. This paper focuses on the impact of the Cyprus question on the Greek Left during the post-WWII period, but its perspective differs from customary approaches. The Cyprus question is not viewed as a nationalist-empowering factor, but rather as an awareness-raising process on decolonization challenges and Third-World dynamics, leading the Greek Left to forge ideological and human bonds with geographically and culturally distant regions—in this case, Latin America. The study of Cyprus as a mediator between Greece and Latin America also allows addressing a wider historiographical issue: how the assertion of patriotic values and national sovereignty can be intertwined with transnationalism.
The publication of this paper was made possible thanks to the generous support of the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University. I owe a special thanks to Cyrus Schayegh and to this volume’s editors for their insightful reading of this paper.
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Palieraki, E. (2018). Patriots and Internationalists: The Greek Left, the Cyprus Question, and Latin America. In: Kyritsi, T., Christofis, N. (eds) Cypriot Nationalisms in Context. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97804-8_15
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