Publications

BOOKS (monograph)

Alecou, Alexios (2016). Communism and Nationalism in Postwar Cyprus, 1945-1955. Politics and Ideologies Under British Rule. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

EDITOR IN EDITED VOLUMES

Alecou, Alexios (ed.) (2016) Acceleration of History: War, Conflicts and Politics. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books – Rowman & Littlefield.

(forthcoming). Ο Χρήσιμος Εχθρός: δοκίμια για την κατασκευή του «Άλλου» [The Useful Enemy: essays on the construction of the “Other”]. Nicosia: University of Cyprus Press.

Other Books

Alecou, Alexios (2012). 1948: Ο Ελληνικός Εμφύλιος και η Κύπρος [1948: The Greek Civil War and Cyprus]. Nicosia: Power Publishers.

Alecou, Alexios (ed.) (2016). Ο Β’ Παγκόσμιος Πόλεμος μέσα από τον Κυπριακό Τύπο [The WWII and the Cyprus’s Press]. Nicosia: Press and Information Office.

ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

1.       Alecou, Alexios (2016) “Safeguarding through Stability: British constitutional proposals in post-war Cyprus”. Journal of Human Rights in the Commonwealth, 2 (2), pp. 50-56.

2.       Alecou, Alexios (2015) “Enosis, the anticolonial movement and the referendum of 1950” [Ένωση, αντιαποικιακό κίνημα και το δημοψήφισμα του 1950]. History, Society and Politics Review, 1 (2015), pp. 67-88.

3.       Alecou, Alexios (2015) “Shaping Identities: The Cypriot Left and the Communist Party of Greece in the 1940s”. Journal of Historical Sociology. DOI: 10.1111/johs.12102
 

4.       Alecou, Alexios (2014). “The Church of Cyprus: Political Modulator and Financial Power”. The International Journal of Humanities & Social Studies, 2 (7), pp. 171-181.

5.       Alecou, Alexios (2014) “British Law and Order in Cyprus”. History Today, 64 (10), pp. 16-18.

6.       Alecou, A., Kapardis, A. (2014). “British Security: Confronting the communist and the nationalist threat in Cyprus, 1920-1955”. Journal of European Academic Research, 2 (6), pp. 7112-7139.

7.       Alecou, Alexios (2014) “The Greek Civil War in Cyprus: Ideology, Tactics and the Division of Society”. Journal of Mediterranean Studies, 23 (1), pp. 89-100.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDITED VOLUMES

1.       Alecou, Alexios (2016). “What accelerates History?”. In A. Alecou (ed.), Acceleration of History: War, Conflicts and Politics. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books – Rowman & Littlefield

2.       Alecou, Alexios (2016) “Οι Κύπριοι στον πόλεμο: Η κατάταξη των εθελοντών και ο ρόλος του Τύπου” [Cypriots at War: Recruitment and the Press]. In Alexios Alecou (ed.) The WWII and the Cyprus’s Press. Nicosia: Press and Information Office.

3.       Alecou, Alexios (2015) “Η πολιτική διάσταση του δημοσιογραφικού έργου του Κώστα Μόντη”[The political dimension of the journalist work of Costas Montis]. In Andreas Sophokleous (ed.), Costas Montis, Studies on his journalist work, pp. 47-54. (Nicosia: Mass Media & Communication Institute – University of Nicosia)

4.       Alecou, Alexios (2013) “Η ίδρυση του Κομμουνιστικού Κόμματος Κύπρου” [The foundation of the Communist Party of Cyprus]. In G. Giorgis and Y. Katsourides (eds), The Cypriot Left in the first period of the British Rule, pp. 87-97. (Athens: Taxideftis)

5.       Alecou, Alexios (forthcoming). “Ο πολιτικός και ιδεολογικός ρόλος της Εκκλησίας της Κύπρου, 1960-2012” [The political and ideological role of the Church of Cyprus, 1960-2012]. In Y. Katsourides (ed.), Θεσμοί της Κυπριακής Δημοκρατίας [Institutions of the Republic of Cyprus] (Thessaloniki: Syghronoi Orizontes)

6.       (forthcoming). “Η παραβατική ταυτότητα των κυπρίων στα πρώτα χρόνια της Αγγλοκρατίας: κατασκευή ή πραγματικότητα;” [The challenging behavior of Cypriots in the early years of the British rule]. In A. Alecou (ed.), Ο Χρήσιμος Εχθρός: δοκίμια για την κατασκευή του «Άλλου» [The Useful Enemy: essays on the construction of the “Other”]. (Nicosia: University of Cyprus Press). With A. Kapardis.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

1.       (2015). Book Review of Catherine Corrigal-Brown (2012). Patterns of Protest: Trajectories of Participation in Social Movements. (Stanford, Ca.: Stanford University Press). Political Studies Review, 13:2, p. 280.

2.       (2015). Book Review of Noah Riseman (2012). Defending Whose Country? Indigenous Soldiers in the Pacific War. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press). Army History, Winter 2015, pp. 49-50.  

3.       (2015). Book Review of Yiannos Katsourides (2014). History of the Communist Party in Cyprus: Colonialism, Class and the Cypriot Left. (London: I. B. Tauris). Reviews in History (review no. 1723). DOI: 10.14296/RiH/2014/1723. Date accessed: 6 February, 2015.

4.       (2015). Book Review of Andreas Sophokleous (2014). The Press censorship in Cyprus during the British Rule (1878-1960) [Η Λογοκρισία του Τύπου στην Κύπρο επί Αγγλοκρατίας (1878-1960)] (Nicosia: En Typois). Cyprus Bibliophilia, Vol. Θ’, Issue 34, p. 44.

5.       (2009). “The influence of the Greek civil war on the division of the Greek-Cypriot community’s local society”.

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