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It thus emerges not as an isolated anomaly, but as a catalyst whose reverberations have reshaped the regional equilibrium into the present.   The book’s central contribution is a rigorously revisionist account of Greek policy-making. Kalpadakis demonstrates that alongside dominant irredentist narratives existed a coherent, strategically literate diplomatic current that interpreted Cyprus through its long-term implications for Greek–Turkish relations. Drawing on extensive archival research, the study traces this dissenting diplomacy from the decolonization debates of the 1950s through the constitutional crisis of the 1960s and into the years preceding 1974. These pragmatists endorsed Cypriot self-determination but resisted the absolutization of immediate Enosis, recognizing how Cyprus could entrench asymmetries, internationalize bilateral antagonism, and expose wider Greek interests to retaliation.   Analytically disciplined and conceptually ambitious, The Cyprus Conflict: Diplomacy as Dissent, 1954-1974 is essential reading for scholars of the Cyprus conflict, Greek–Turkish relations, nationalism, and Cold War diplomacy. By situating Cyprus within the wider logic of bilateral relations and recovering neglected traditions of strategic reasoning, while restoring contingency to a conflict too often framed through retrospective inevitability, the book illuminates deep-seated patterns of constraint, escalation, and choice. 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