Professor Michalis Attalides - University of Nicosia

Name:
Michalis Attalides
Address: Office: University of Nicosia,
46, Makedonitissas ave.,
P.O.Box 24005,
1700 Nicosia,
Cyprus
Home:
8, Sachtouris street,
1080 Nicosia,
Cyprus
Telephone: Office: +35722841573
Home: +35722680808
Fax: Office: +35722351883
Home: +35722680808
E-mail:
attalides.m@unic.ac.cy
Education
Undergraduate work: London School of
Economics and Political Science, U.K., B.Sc.
(Econ.), 1963
Graduate work: Princeton University, U.S.A.,
M.A.,1965, Ph.D., 1975
Positions Held:
Rector, University of Nicosia since 3 April, 2008
Chairman, Interim Governing Board, University of Nicosia, October 2007-
March 2008
Rector of Intercollege 2006-7
Dean of the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Intercollege,
September, 2003- September 2006
Representative of the Cyprus Government to the European Convention ,
March 2002-July, 2003
Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cyprus, May 2000-
November 2001

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High Commissioner for Cyprus in the United Kingdom, February 1998- April
2000
Permanent Delegate of Cyprus to the European Union and Ambassador to
Belgium and Luxembourg, 1995-98
Ambassador of Cyprus to France, 1991-95 (also accredited to Morocco,
Portugal and Spain ).
Ambassador, Director of Political Affairs Division B (Cyprus Question),
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1989-91
International Relations Service, House of Representatives of Cyprus, 1977-
89. (Director from 1979).
Guest Lecturer, Otto Suhr Institute, Free University of Berlin, 1974-75
Counterpart of UNESCO expert, Social Research Centre, Cyprus, 1971-74
Sociologist, Cyprus Town and Country Planning Project, University of
Nottingham-Cyprus Government, 1968-70
Lecturer in Sociology, Leicester University, U.K., 1966-68
Areas of Concentration/ Research Interests:
Cyprus Society and Politics
European Integration
Nationalism.
Languages:
Greek - fluent
English- fluent
French- partial
Doctoral Dissertation:
Nicosia: Social Change and Urbanisation
Books
Cyprus: State, Society and International Environment. Athens. Papazisis,
2009.pp 292 (In Greek)
Cyprus: Nationalism and International Politics, St Martin‟s Press, New York:
1980 pp. 226+xi. Reprinted by Bibliopolis, Mannheim und Mohnesee: 2003
Cyprus Reviewed (ed.) Jus Cypri, Nicosia: 1977 pp279+xii

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Social Change and Urbanisation in Cyprus: A Study of Nicosia, The Social
Research Centre, Nicosia: 1971 pp211+xv
Chapters in Books
“The Cyprus Problem and the European Union: The catalyst five years after
accession” in Pericleous, C., (ed.) The Republic of Cyprus. Fifty Years of
Painful Progress. Papazisis Publishers, Athens, 2010, p. 601-629 (in Greek)
“The Treaty of Lisbon in the process of European integration”, in
Theophilides, C. and Persianis P., (eds), Volume in Honour of Yiannis
Koutsakos, Cyprus Educational Association, Nicosia, 2010, p. 357-76 (in
Greek)
“The Cyprus problem five years after accession to the EU.”, in Ntalis, Sotiris,
From Bush to Obama: International Politics in a Changing World. Papazisis
Publishers, Athens, 2010, p. 356-370. (in Greek)
“Eventualities in the Turkey-EU accession negotiations” in Melakopides,
Costas, ed., The Cyprus Yearbook of International Relations 2008-2009 ,
Nicosia:Cyprus Institute of Mediterranean, European and International
Studies, 2009, p123-38
“The Cooperation of Small and Middle-sized States in the EU Convention” in
Farnleitner, Hannes, ed., Unser Europa, MMC ,Wien:2004, p. 46-52
“Factors Shaping Cypriot Society After Independence”, Lectures of the
Popular University . Cyprus Life and Society . Nicosia Municipality, 1993. p.
215-235 (In Greek)
“Political Parties in Cyprus 1878-1955). Lectures of the Popular University.
Cyprus 1878-1955. Nicosia Municipality, 1986 p. 123-152. (In Greek)
“Relations Between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots”. In G. Tenekides
and Y. Kranidiotis, Cyprus: History, Problems and Struggles of its People.
Athens: Estia, 1981 p. 413-445 (In Greek)
“Forms of Peasant Incorporation in Cyprus During the Last Century”, in
Gellner, Ernest and John Waterbury, Patrons and Clients in Mediterranean
Societies, Duckworth, London, 1977,p. 137-155
“The Turkish Cypriots: Their Relations to the Greek Cypriots in Perspective”,
in M. Attalides, ed., Cyprus Reviewed, Jus Cypri, Nicosia: 1977 p. 71-97
“Greece”, in M. Scotford-Archer and S. Giner, eds., Contemporary Europe:
Class, Status and Power, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 1971. ( With N.
Mouzelis)
Journal Articles

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“The Accession of Cyprus to the EU and the „Acquis‟ of the Intercommunal
Negotiations”, The Cyprus Review , vol. 22, no.2, 2010, p.159-174
“The Cyprus Problem and the European Union. The catalyst five years after
accession”, Diethnis kai Evropaiki Politiki, vol. 19. July-September, 2010, p.
104-121. (in Greek)
“The Cyprus Problem five years after accession to the E.U.”, Diethnis kai
Evropaiki Politiki, vol. 16, Oct.-Dec. 2009, p187-198 (in Greek)
“The Treaty of Lisbon and Cyprus” Diethnis kai Evropaiki Politiki , No. 12.
October-December 2008. p. 48-58 (In Greek)
“Helsinki, the “No” vote of 2004 and after”, Diethnis kai Evropaiki Politiki, No.
11, July-September, 2008, p.77-88 (In Greek)
(Review Article) “The Referendum of 24 th April 2004 and the Solution of the
Cyprus Problem”, Diethnis kai Evropaiki Politiki, No. 2, April- June 2006, p.
159-166 (In Greek)
(Review Articles) David Hanney, “Cyprus: The Search for a Solution” I.B.
Tauris, London:2005 ; Claire Palley, “ An International Relations Debacle: The
UN Secretary-General‟s Mission of Good Offices in Cyprus 1999-2004, Hart
Publishing, Oxford and Portland , Oregon:2005, The Cyprus Review,
Vol17, No.1, Spring 2005, p 132-43
(Book Review) Andreas Theophanous, “The Cyprus Question and the EU:
The Challenge and the Promise”, Intercollege Press, Nicosia, 2004, The
Cyprus Review, Vol 16, no.2, Fall 2004, p115-7
“The political Process in Cyprus and the Day after the Referendum”. The
Cyprus Review, Vol.15, Spring 2004, p. 137-146
“An Enlarged Union in the 21 st Century: Challenges and Opportunities”.
Global Dialogue , Vol.5, December, 2003, p.9-18
“ Cyprus and its Candidature”, Brussels, Centre for European Policy Studies,
CEPS Review No. 5, Winter 1987-8 p.41-46
“Homosexuality: Social and Historical Context” , Cyprus Mental Health
Association, Homosexuality, Nicosia: 1982, p. 9-35
“Forms of Peasant Incorporation in Cyprus During the Last Century”, Annals
of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 268, February, 1976, Regional
Variation in Modern Greece and Cyprus: Toward a Perspective on the
Ethnography of Greece. p 363-378.
“Social Change and Rural Development in Cyprus”, Agricultural Science, Vol.
7, March, 1976 p. 109-126

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“Changing Configurations of Greek Cypriot Kinship”, in J.G. Peristiany, ed.,
Kinship and Modernization in Mediterranean Societies. The Center for
Mediterranean Studies, Rome, 1976 p. 73-90
“Makarios e il Opposizione fra il Possibile e il Desiderabile”, Politica
Internazionale, Roma, 1973 p. 53-57
Other Scholarly Activities
Holder of Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Nicosia
Member of the Preparatory Committee for the Founding of the University of
Cyprus, 1988.
Founding Member and for a number of years president of the Cyprus
Sociological Association.
Teaching
Current European Issues
European Integration
Diplomatic Practice