The mirage of leverage: Crans-Montana and the laws of geography

The collapse of the 2017 Crans-Montana conference remains the defining strategic blunder of modern Greek Cypriot statecraft, illustrating the fatal flaw of relying on legalistic paper promises in an era of shifting global power. Driven by the illusion that international norms and European solidarity could neutralise raw power disparities, Nicosia walked away from a critical […]