Description: Volume 1 b of the The Proceedings of the Second International Congress for Cyprus Studies embodies a collection of 24 papers in two parts presented at the annual Cyprus Studies Congress hosted by EMU in 1998. Part I consists of fifteen papers treating the economy of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus from a variety of perspectives. Economics covers a wide range of topics; therefore each of the papers presented focus on issues that contribute directly or indirectly to the economy of the country, namely financial matters, tourism, banking, the impact of EU and water resources. Each issue is treated from a very broad perspective by the presenters. The papers are on issues like "Co-integration, Causality and Wagner's Law", "_Wastewater treatment", "Trade policy and economic growth", "Economic performance and competitiveness", "Investment appraisal of the dam to be built in Yesil?rmak", "EU membership of Cyprus", "Cyprus and the EU", "Turkey, European policy and the British Media", "Tourism sector", "Conference tourism", "North Cyprus tourism in the past, present & future", "Currency board arrangement", "Banking sector", "Social accounting matrix", and "Social security system". The second part is devoted to miscellaneous matters, outcome of scholarly research carried out on issues like history, preparation of handbooks on North Cyprus, the Flora, higher education, and culture. These papers are richly detailed revealing the facts about the TRNC making it possible for researchers to better comprehend the country. Hence, the collection includes papers entitled "The hidden history of failure", "Catalog of MSS collection", "A new handbook on Cyprus", Threatened aspects of the North Cyprus flora", "Illustrated books and MSS on Cyprus", "Quality assurance in higher education", "Ancient Cyprus", "Ethnographic photography" and "Two economies on an Island".