The elusive middle path. A comparative analysis of the colonial past of Cyprus and Ireland
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article proposes a comparative and longue durée analysis of Ireland and Cyprus; two predominantly white and Christian nations, but with some of the most intractable ethnopolitical conflicts of the 20th century to have erupted on European soil. Its objective is twofold. First, it highlights similarities and differences in their colonial history, that is both in the ways they were ruled by Imperial Britain and the ways they responded to her rule, particularly after the emergence of nationalism and the outbreak of insurgency campaigns calling into question the legitimacy of British presence there. Second, it illustrates the challenges of overcoming the rigid boundary dictated by colonialism and nationalism and defending a credible 'middle path' on either side of the colonial divide.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it