Research & Professional Achievements

Selected Publications

Books

Koktsidis, P.I.  (2024) Ethno-federalism in Cyprus: Territory, Power, and Security. In Statehood Series, (London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis) (Monograph).

Koktsidis, P. I. (2012) Strategic Rebellion: Ethnic Conflict in FYR Macedonia and the Balkans, Nationalism across the Globe Series (Peter Lang: Oxford) (Monograph).

Koktsidis, P.I.  (ed.) (2014) Societies in Transition: Economic, Political and Security Transformations in Europe (Springer Pbl.: Frankfurt) (Editor)

Koktsidis, P.I., et al. (eds.) (2012), Infusing Research and Knowledge in South Eastern Europe. (SEERC Publications: Thessaloniki).

Journal Articles

Koktsidis, P.I. & Andreas Georgiou (2026) “Transnational Patterns of Division and Warfare: Measuring the Impact of Kin Group Concentrations on the Type and Intensity of Conflicts in the Eastern Mediterranean”. Sociological Review, Vol. 60 No 2, University of Belgrade (In print)  

Koktsidis, P.I. (2024). “Calling the Big rother? Turkish Cypriot Vulnerability and the Geopolitics of Kin State Intervention”, Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, in Special Issue on Minority Agency in Times of War, Vol. 23 No. 3, pp: 67–97

Koktsidis, P.I (2022). “Turkey’s ‘Soft Power Interventionism’ in the Turkish Cypriot Community: Agents, Objectives, and Implications”, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Volume 25, Issue 3, pp:522-539

Koktsidis, P.I (2019). ‘The Decision to Use Violence: Opportunity Structures and Insurgency in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia’, Journal of Ethnopolitics, [Taylor and Francis], Vol. 18, Issue 4, pp: 383-405

Koktsidis, P.I (2018). ‘Bi-Ethnic Federalism and the Question of Sovereignty: Understanding the Competitive Security Postures in Cyprus’, Perspectives on Federalism, Vol. 10, Issue 3, pp: 71-98 (De Gruyter) (Awarded with UCY Prize)

Koktsidis, P. I. (2017). ‘Negotiating Under the Security Dilemma: A Loss-Framed Approach to the Question of Cyprus’, Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies, Vol. 24

No.1, Nova South Eastern University, Florida, US.

Koktsidis, P. I. & Menelaos Apostolou (2016). ‘Ethnic Federalism and Power-sharing in Cyprus: Motives, Constrains and Preconditions’, Mediterranean Quarterly, Duke University Press, Vol. 27, Issue 3, pp. 105-134.

Koktsidis, P.I. (2014). ‘From Deprivation to Violence’? State Repression and the Violent Escalation of Conflict in the Republic of Macedonia’, Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, Taylor and Francis, Vol. 7 Issue 1, pp.1-29.

Koktsidis, P.I. (2014). ‘How Conflict Spreads: Opportunity Structures and the Diffusion of Conflict in the Republic of Macedonia’, Civil Wars Journal, Taylor and

Francis, Vol. 16 Issue 2, pp.208-238.

Koktsidis, P.I (2013). ‘Nipping an Insurgency in the Bud – Part I: The Theory and Practice of Non-military Coercion in FYR Macedonia’, Journal of Ethnopolitics, Taylor and Francis, Vol. 12 Issue 2, pp: 183-200.

Koktsidis, P.I (2013). ‘Nipping an Insurgency in the Bud – Part II: The Success and Limits of Non-military Coercion in FYR Macedonia’, Journal of Ethnopolitics, Taylor and Francis, Vol. 12 Issue 3, pp: 290-306

Koktsidis, P. I and Ten Dam Caspar, (2008). ‘A success story? Albanian extremist ethno-nationalism in the Balkans’, Eastern European Quarterly, Vol. 42, No 3, pp:

167-190 (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Koktsidis, P. I. (2007). ‘Fighting Modern Insurgencies: The Iraq Experience’, Scholarly Research Paper, Pamphlet, (Grin Publishing).

Book Chapters

Koktsidis P. I. Costas M. Constantinou and Joseph Joseph (2021). “The Political, Legal & Security Aspects of Energy Developments in the Eastern Mediterranean: Implications for the EU” in The New Eastern Mediterranean Transformed - Emerging issues and new actors, [pp. 119-137] (Springer Pbl: Frankfurt)

Koktsidis P. I. and Spyridou, Lia-Paschalia (2017). “Manufacturing Consent or Informing the Public? A review of recent research on how international mainstream media covered the Greek crisis” in Hardy Hannapi and Savvas Katsikides (Eds) Evolutionary Political Economy in Action (pp. 189-207)

(Routledge: Oxford).

Koktsidis P.I. (2016). “Poverty: Who, where and why?” in Michal Cenker, Louiza Hadjivasiliou, Patrick Marren and Niamh Rooney (eds.) Development Education in Theory and Practice: An Educator’s Guide. (pp. 59-80). (UNIDEV: Nicosia – Dublin -Bratislava)

Koktsidis, P.I. (2015). “European Integration and Security in South-Eastern Europe” in Hardy Hanappi and Savvas Katsikides (eds), Society and Economics in Europe: Disparity versus Convergence? (pp: 137-156) (Springer Pbl. Frankfurt).

Koktsidis, P. I. (2005). “Political Parties and Political Violence: A Comparative Analysis of Sinn Fein and Herri Batasuna” in Gregory Papas (ed.) International Research in Global Affairs (pp: 317-337) (ATINER: Athens).