Studying the Monopoly of Violence, from the core to the fringes.
Police – Paramilitaries – Army – Intelligence – Propaganda
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Welcome to my personal website. This is a space where I gather some of my published work. It is not intended to be a news outlet in any capacity, but rather an information repository and a dynamic online portfolio.
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My work is my diakonima. By employing a multidisciplinary approach, I direct my research towards understanding the role of the police, army, intelligence services, and paramilitaries in the liminal space between chaos and stability. I specialised on the 1959-64 chapter of the Cyprus Question and in particular the interplay between the various paramilitary formations of the time with the official police and military institutions. My doctoral research at The University of Edinburgh documented the development of the security and defence institutions of the Cypriot State as a reaction to the Turkish-Cypriot insurgency. Through the analysis of this case-study, I developed a new conceptual framework for “chaotic security structures” at momentous phases in polity‐building.
In the wider context of my interests, I have published and written on several issues including hybrid warfare, Cypriot paramilitary formations, UN international policing and peacekeeping operations, the relations between EOKA and the IRA (on which I’ve co-authored a book), cultural diplomacy, the Turkmen paramilitaries in Syria, undercover policing in the UK, illegal immigration, information operations and cognitive security, and qualitative research methods using an intermediary. I have taught or given guest-lectures, both academic and non-academic, on the aforementioned topics and I have been interviewed, provided commentary, and authored articles in Cypriot media (radio, television, newspapers) on security, defence, intelligence and paramilitary issues in Cyprus, the Eastern Mediterranean, and elsewhere.
I have been the Director of the Executive Education Centre of the University of Limassol (evolution of the CIIM Business School) between 2023-24.
I have taught for several years at the Education of Cadet Constables Programme as a Visiting Lecturer in Policing, in the context of the Memorandum of Cooperation between the University of Cyprus and the Cyprus Police.
In my pro bono capacity, I serve as a Member of the Executive Secretariat of the Foundation for the EOKA Liberation Struggle (IDAAE), of which I am also the Commissioner for the Archive & Library, and as the Founding Secretary and Member of the Board of Director of the Cyprus Oral History Association (EPIKY).
Due to new work commitments, starting June 2024, this website will be updated very sporadically, until further notice.
//Lambros G. Kaoullas
lambros.com.cy