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Christodoulou has concentrated his analysis on the Greek-Cypriot economy, arguing
that Turkish-Cypriots were largely involuntary parties to the "TRNC": "...reunification
depends on what the genuine will of the Turkish-Cypriots turns out to
be, which hitherto has never been expressed freely...The Turkish-Cypriots will not
agree to anything which Turkey does not want..."(pp 291). It is this Turkish
dominance, particularly Turkish military dominance,
negating politicai and
economic independence, which removes the requirement and déniés the possibility,
for Greek-Cypriots to study the région as part of Cyprus.
Christodoulou has, however, developed a clear snap shot of what is effectively
southern Cyprus, on a background of an orthodox view of the Cyprus problem. The
main strengths of his significant recent worlc derive from his personal depth of
knowledge of recent Cypriot history and his access to officiai sources (having been
a former government minister). If there are weaknesses, they may lie in a lack of
analytical debate and criticai argument and in the failure to confront inter-Greek
(Greek-Cypriot) conflict and the reality of economic division, both in the 1960s and
after 1974. Christodoulou seems to rely heavily on a narrative, descriptive view of
recent Cypriot economic history, when what is needed is a more circumspect
approach to acknowledge and illuminate controversy. There is very little use of
theory in Christodoulou's analysis. Any criticism of post-1974 government policy is
either vague or veiled and coded, following or followed by flattery and so lost on
the uninitiated reader. The lasting impression after reading Christodoulou is that
"Inside The Cyprus Miracle" is a book about the development of the Greek-Cypriot
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