Securitization and Desecuritization Processes in Protracted Conflicts

Constantinos Adamides is Assistant Professor of International Relations and the Director of the Diplomatic Academy at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. He frequently cooperates with the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defence, and the National Guard. He also served as a Member of the first Geostrategic Council of Cyprus (2014-2018).

• Chapter 1: Overview of the theoretical background.- Chapter 2: Protracted conflicts: a fertile environment for routinized securitization.- Chapter 3: Cyprus: a textbook case of an intractable conflict.- Chapter 4: Securitization in protracted conflicts: a theoretical framework.- Chapter 5: The Cyprus conflict through the lens of the securitization processes.- Chapter 6: Desecuritization in protracted conflicts.- Chapter 7: Energy securitization and in a protracted conflict environment.