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

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).