Vassilis K. Fouskas is Professor of International Relations at Richmond University, London and the founding editor of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. He is the author of Cyprus (Pluto, 2009), The Fall of the US Empire (Pluto, 2012) and Zones of Conflict (Pluto, 2003).Alex Tackie is Senior Lecturer in Economics at Kingston University, UK. He has previously collaborated on published work on Greece and Cyprus and is the author of Cyprus (Pluto, 2009).