Az Európai Unió normatív hatalmának és az európaizáció vizsgálata a ciprusi válság kapcsán

There are many frozen conflicts in Europe, among which the Hungarian public has little knowledge of the Cyprus conflict. The island of Cyprus might be the biggest anomaly of the European Union, because of its bloody history, the contradictions of its EU membership, and some of the island’s territory is under temporary military occupation. The provided document analyses the mentioned conflict from the EU’s crisis management perspective. The main goal of this research is to prove the following hypothesis: the EU cannot handle and resolve the conflict on its own. The EU only normalized this frozen crisis, also on some occasions its efforts deepened the conflict. The theoretical frame of this analysis consists of the idea that the EU is a normative power and the concept of Europeanization. The research provides insight into the conflict’s history and the international community’s efforts to solve the crisis. After the presentation of the island’s historical background, I analyze the EU’s normative power in practice through the means of top-down Europeanization, which includes legal, economic, political, and diplomatic tools. The research also deals with the concept of bottom-up Europeanization, and the conclusion on this aspect is, that not every affected party can protect their interests and influence the EU’s policies about Cyprus. As long as the Republic of Cyprus and Greece – because of their EU membership and presence in the institutional systems – succeed, the Turkish Cypriot community’s and Turkey’s bottom-up Europeanization efforts are in vain and shall be considered unsuccessful. I analyze and present some specific political, economic, and social factors that hinder the assertion of the EU’s normative power and the solution to the conflict