Dear Readers,

This issue of The Cyprus Review sees the inauguration of several significant changes. We hope that these changes will improve its quality, increase the readership and enhance its overall professionalism and efficiency.

The first major announcement is that we will now be disseminating The Cyprus Review via EBSCO, one of the leading international research database services. Our partnership with EBSCO will help make The Cyprus Review more visible amongst the wider academic community. The hope is that this will lead to a larger readership. At the same time, we believe that this increased visibility will lead to more and higher-quality submissions in the future.

Another major change in this issue is the restructuring of the Editorial Board. In the past, there was only one board. From this issue, The Cyprus Review will have an Editorial Board composed of local, Cyprus-based scholars, as well as an International Advisory Board, made up of many of the leading names in our subject working at institutions in Greece, Britain, France, Germany and the United States. We expect that this structure will provide the Review with the all-important element of local ownership, but also ensure that the journal meets the highest international standards.

Finally, we have decided to develop the book reviews section and have appointed Dr Olga Demetriou as Book Reviews Editor, a new post. In addition to allowing the team to work in a more specialised and efficient manner, this will allow us to expand the range of topics we cover, including Cyprus-relevant books on Greece, Turkey and the European Union, as well as on the broader Eastern Mediterranean. Likewise, this should also allow us to review books appearing across a wide range of languages, not least of all Greek and Turkish.

All-in-all, these initial changes are designed to improve the quality and dissemination of the journal, encourage greater participation, and allow our editorial team to work in a more efficient and professional manner. However, we will not stop there. We firmly believe that the Review must continue to evolve and we hope to unveil further changes in due course.

One point that we are keenly aware of is that The Cyprus Review is only as good as its readership. Thus, we hope that you, our readers, will play a part as the process develops. In particular, we welcome high-quality submissions across the range of humanities and social sciences. We also hope that the readership will continue to supply us with useful suggestions to guide us as we continue to improve The Cyprus Review.

We wish you a good reading,

The Editors

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TCR Staff:

• Editor in Chief:                 Hubert Faustmann       
• Co-Editors:                       James Ker-Lindsay/Craig Webster
• Book Reviews Editor:      Olga Demetriou                                 
• Managing Editor:             Nicos Peristianis
• Assistant to Editors:      Christina McRoy

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