Adaptive federalism: a new constitutional design for Cyprus

As the United Nations Secretary General prepares to visit Cyprus, perhaps the most important question is not simply whether Cyprus can be reunited, but what kind of constitutional architecture could enable reunification to endure. For more than half a century, Cyprus has searched for the right formula. The greatest obstacle may no longer be the absence of negotiations, but the absence of a coherent constitutional design capable of sustaining a federal state.

Adaptive Federalism is more than a...