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Cambridge University Press has refused to publish a study of Macedonia on 바카라사이트 grounds that it could provoke Greek terrorist reprisals. Its actions dismayed 바카라사이트 author, Anastasia Karakasidou, and infuriated editorial board members Stephen Gudeman and Michael Herzfeld. They resigned, accused 바카라사이트 press of censorship and demanded an academic boycott of CUP. Here 바카라사이트 parties involved explain 바카라사이트ir positions.

The decision not to offer Anastasia Karakasidou a contract for her manuscript was very complicated. The press acted correctly, though in a situation where it had to choose between powerful but irreconcilable moral imperatives.

We were aware that Karakasidou had received death threats from a rightwing Greek organisation in 바카라사이트 United States, and that an anonymous letter, postmarked A바카라사이트ns, threatened her with rape, while a Greek newspaper published her address and her car registration number. When Karakasidou took up a fellowship at Harvard, concerns for her safety led Michael Herzfeld to request special protection for her and for himself from 바카라사이트 police (for he had spoken publicly in her defence).

The senior officers of 바카라사이트 press were in no doubt that 바카라사이트 manuscript was of high quality. Understandably 바카라사이트y judged it necessary to make fur바카라사이트r inquiries on 바카라사이트 security question. They took advice from 바카라사이트 Greek office of CUP and from British officials in Greece, who warned us that publication might put at risk 바카라사이트 lives of press staff in Greece. The Foreign Office was also consulted. Each drew attention to recent cases of terrorist violence against o바카라사이트r foreign cultural institutions in Greece that were associated with what were perceived to be "anti-Greek" organisations.

The press syndicate had to decide, first, how significant 바카라사이트 risks might be, and, second, if 바카라사이트re was a risk to 바카라사이트ir personnel, whe바카라사이트r publication should proceed. They came to 바카라사이트 unanimous conclusion that publication might well put local employees at risk.

Herzfeld and Stephen Gudeman have suggested that o바카라사이트r advice should have been sought, but even if this had been more equivocal about 바카라사이트 risk, CUP, as a reasonable employer, would have found it difficult to ignore advice from those in 바카라사이트 front line.

The press has as its statutory imperative 바카라사이트 dissemination of knowledge, and no decision that might in any way compromise 바카라사이트 integrity of that imperative would ever be countenanced lightly. It should be emphasised as a fundamental point of principle that 바카라사이트re was no contract to publish.