The Broken Olive Branch: Nationalism, | Ethnic Co...

The author posits that ethnic rivalry was largely engineered by the political leadership of both communities, who utilized nationalistic ideologies to maintain power and consolidate separate identities.

A central concept in the work is the "dialectic of noncommunication," where communication discord leads to opposing interpretations of national symbols, events, and historical narratives between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. The Broken Olive Branch: Nationalism, Ethnic Co...

The Broken Olive Branch: Nationalism and the Cyprus Conflict The author posits that ethnic rivalry was largely