The University of Nicosia, The Daedalos Institute of Geopolitics and Papazizis Publications cordially invite you to the presentation of the book of Michalis Attalides: 'Cyprus, State, Society and International Environment' (Athens 2009, Papazizis Publishers). This presentation will be held at the UNESCO amphitheatre, at the University of Nicosia, on Thursday 09/07/2009, at 7:00 p.m. The presentation will be held in Greek.

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Daedalos Institute of Geopolitics has successfully organized the international conference “Turkey and the European Union: Problems and Prospects”, on the 11th June 2009 at Holiday Inn, Nicosia.

Following the commencement of accession negotiations with the EU, Turkey is again facing a Western challenge and a promising opportunity. Its drive for westernization is now taking the form of Europeanization, that is, the reform of structures, institutions and policies to meet the requirements of the logic, political dynamics and administrative mechanisms of the European Union.
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Friday, 21st November 2008, 8.30-17.30, Hilton Park, Nicosia

The precipitous rise in the international price of oil from around $30/barrel in March 2003 to nearly $110/barrel five years later and the continuous supply crises, which have been bedeviling the flow of Russian natural gas to Europe via Ukraine (January 2006, March 2008) and Belarus (January 2007), indicate that the international energy security system is reaching an important turning point. The European Union, Russia and the U.S. seem to be entangled within a partly cooperative partly confrontational relationship over the security and reliability of European energy imports.

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Daedalos Institute of Geopolitics in Cyprus has successfully organized to the international conference 'The Mediterranean and the New Euro-Mediterranean perspectives' to be held on the 9th and 10th October at Holiday Inn in Nicosia.

After the first conference that Daedalos organized in Paris (Sorbonne) on May 31 2008 on “The Union for the Mediterranean: assets and challenges”, under the auspices of the French President, Mr Nicolas Sarkozy, this conference will exploit novel tools for analysing the issue of the political, economic and cultural relations between the European world and the countries of the southern bank of the Mediterranean. The conference takes place right at the moment where new visions and new prospects are provided by the project of the Union for the Mediterranean, whose birth was declared in Paris on July 13, 2008.

Daedalos Institute of Geopolitics has successfully organised on 31st May 2008 in the Sorbonne University in Paris a conference on the 'Union for the Mediterranean'.

Since its announcement nearly a year ago by France, the project for the establishment of a Mediterranean Union has caused various contradictory reactions: skepticism and concerns to some, euphoria and voluntarism to others. And that is because the birth of such a geopolitical block is not an easy action, nor a project without strategic, political or economic motives, which do not always contribute to the convergence of interests. The stakes are multiple and major and the interests of the implicated States can be complementary or even antagonistic. ...

Daedalos Institute of Geopolitics and the Dialogue Chair in Middle Eastern Studies* at the University of Nicosia have successfully organised a conference on Arab-Israeli Conflict on the 25th January 2008 at the University of Nicosia.

The on-going Arab-Israeli conflict, the longest unresolved conflict in our era, is going through a critical phase. A serious effort towards a settlement now seems underway. The desire exhibited by both sides perhaps indicates both the sobering impact of past failures in efforts for a settlement and the catastrophic prospects of a continuing stalemate. Past accords have thus far failed to produce any lasting settlement and earlier hopes for a serious breakthrough have not yet been realised....