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183161
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This analysis unveils the convergence of the International Federation of Association Football’s [FIFA] football reunification initiatives and the interests of global actors with an interest in solving the Cyprus problem. In 2013, at FIFA’s headquarters in Zurich, Turkish-Cypriot and Greek-Cypriot football officials signed a historic provisional agreement to reunite the two communities in football. That prospect might also act as a catalyst towards the island’s political unification, and for that reason, it was welcomed by global actors for different reasons. For some, hydrocarbon exploration licencing by a united government of Cyprus would not be questioned. However, those loyal to Turkey and the Turkish-Cypriot political elite managed to thwart FIFA’s initiative to serve Turkey’s goals as a regional Power, that is, solve the Cyprus problem on its own terms and assume a role in the hydrocarbon regime in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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122601
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2012.
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Since the adoption of an action plan at the Sea Island Summit in 2004, the Group of Eight (G8) has
addressed the issue of global peacekeeping capacity-building. This peacekeeping capacity-building
assistance agenda includes military, police and civilian aspects of peacekeeping, and aims at the
development of a comprehensive range of peacekeeping capabilities worldwide. The G8 initiatives
have produced some positive results for those nations receiving assistance. However, on the other
hand, the G8 members' actual assistance programs have placed an emphasis on the training of military
peacekeepers at the cost of some other areas, including logistic and financial assistance, which have
not received sufficient attention.
Unlike the United Nations (UN), the G8 is not an operational actor in peacekeeping. However,
from a diplomatic perspective, the G8, like the UN, is a global actor while being unique in that it has
a more flexible organizational structure and agenda-setting capacity. The G8 can play a significant
role in global peacekeeping by mobilizing and legitimizing international assistance to global actors
and governments engaged in peacekeeping as well as peacekeeping capacity-building. As a founding
member of the G8, Japan is expected to actively draw linkages with the G8's peacekeeping capacitybuilding agenda with its own peacekeeping policy and to take the initiative in further developing the
G8 agenda.
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