INTERNATIONAL LAW AND DIPLOMACY ON THE CYPRUS QUESTION

INTRODUCTION 2 work also comprises an important addition, namely Chapter X: Security Policies on the Cyprus Problem: International and Strategic Parametres. I would like to express my deepest thanks to the staff of the Royal Institute of Strategic Studies (RISS), the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICS), University of London, for their kind assistance over the years. Also, I would like to thank the daughter of Lord Caradon as well as the Archivist of the Bodleian Library of Commonwealth Studies at Rhodes House in the University of Oxford for kindly grant- ing permission to reproduce and publish extracts from the Papers of Sir Hugh Foot. Special thanks go to Dr. Roger O’Keefe for writing the foreword to this book. It was ten years ago when Roger was finishing his doctorate and I was a first year undergraduate in Law at Magdalene College, Cambridge. An introduction coming from an old College friend, currently distinguished in the academia, carries very significant weight. I remain indebted. The message of this book nowadays is that the struggle for implementation of International Law is a battle for life. It requires the personal and collective sacrifice of individuals and peoples for the enforcement of a superior national objective. This idealist gist of the Law of Nations essentially dictates that the just must be powerful, particularly spiritually powerful. This book is designed primarily for those who truly believe (in theory and in practice) that political liberty, State sovereignty and national dignity are values much important than life itself. Iacovos Kareklas Visiting Fellow, Pembroke College, University of Oxford