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This chapter focuses on energy securitization and the role energy plays in the overall securitization framework in Cyprus. The chapter supports the argument that energy securitization deserves a section of its own in the Copenhagen School analysis as it does not easily fit in any of the other sectors. At the same time, it presents evidence of how a new issue (i.e. hydrocarbons) that was not linked to historical aspects of the conflict is immediately treated as another pivotal development and as such it is incorporated in the social context, which leads to the development of new routine securitization discourses, while concurrently it contributes to the deepening of the existing political and military securitization dominating Cyprus.
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See Energy Minister, Yiorgos Lakkotrypis interview at “NEA” (August 11, 2019), where he noted that “There has never been a link between the issue of hydrocarbons in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the Republic of Cyprus and the process to reach a settlement of the Cyprus problem”, http://www.cna.org.cy/WebNews.aspx?a=f70c369296e34395bc29979adfdc7ae1 [accessed August 18, 2019].
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Adamides, C. (2020). Energy Securitization in a Protracted Conflict Environment. In: Securitization and Desecuritization Processes in Protracted Conflicts. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33200-6_7
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