How have Malta and Cyprus - both EU members - transitioned from colonial island states to independent democracies? With the assistance of primary documentation this book traces the difficult path of these two states to becoming independent liberal democracies by using the pathway of democratization through decolonization.
Using socio-economic and political data, analysed through the microscope of political science and international relations theories, Isabelle Calleja Ragonesi c.
I. B. Tauris & Company Democracy in southern europe: colonialism, international relations and europeanization from malta to cyprus, paperback/isabelle calleja ragonesi
