Harris Mylonas

Harris Mylonas (born November 16, 1978) is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University.^[1] He is the author of The Politics of Nation-Building: Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities, which was awarded the Peter Katzenstein Book Prize in September 2013^[2] and the 2014 European Studies Book Award by the Council for European Studies.^[3] He is currently working on another book project, The Strategic Logic of Diaspora Management.^[4] The documentary Searching for Andreas: Political Leadership in Times of Crisis (2018) is his first film.

Mylonas has contributed to the ideas of nation-building, state-building, and multilateralism through different publications and articles.^[5] He has also contributed to the analysis of the Greek government-debt crisis.^[6] He is also one of four vice-presidents of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, an academic association dedicated to the understanding of ethnicity and nationalism with a geographic focus in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, and Eurasia.^[7] He is an Associate editor for Nationalities Papers, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Routledge.^[8]

Academic career

Mylonas completed his undergraduate degree at The University of Athens, received an M.A. in political science from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University. He joined the faculty of the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University in 2009.^[9] He also served as an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in 2008-09 and 2011-12 academic years.^[10] Mylonas served as Associate Dean for Research in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University during 2017-2018.

Selected publications

• 2017."The microfoundations of diaspora politics: unpacking the state and disaggregating the diaspora," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (with Alexandra Délano Alonso)
• 2017."Foreign policy priorities and ethnic return migration policies: group-level variation in Greece and Serbia," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (with Marko Žilović)
• 2017. "Nation-Building," Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations.
• 2017. “Methodological Challenges in the Study of Stateless Nationalist Territorial Claims,” Territory, Politics, Governance, Volume 5, Issue 2: 145- 157 (with Nadav Shelef).
• 2016. “Threats to Territorial Integrity, National Mass Schooling, and Linguistic Commonality,” Comparative Political Studies, Volume 49, No. 11: 1446-1479 (with Keith Darden).
• 2015. “Methodological Problems in the Study of Nation-Building: Behaviorism and Historicist Solutions in Political Science,” Social Science Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 3: 740–758.
• 2014. "Which Land is Our Land? Domestic Politics and Change in the Territorial Claims of Stateless Nationalist Movements,” Security Studies, Vol. 23, Issue 4, 754-786 (with Nadav Shelef).
• 2014. "Democratic Politics in Times of Austerity: The Limits of Forced Reform in Greece," Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 12, No. 2 (June): 435-443.
• 2014. “Interstate Relations, Perceptions, And Power Balance: Explaining China’s Policies Toward Ethnic Groups, 1949-1965,” Security Studies, Vol. 23, 148-181 (with Enze Han).
• 2013. “Ethnic Return Migration, Selective Incentives, and the Right to Freedom of Movement in Post-Cold War Greece”, in Willem Maas (ed.). Democratic Citizenship and the Free Movement of People (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff).
• 2012. The Politics of Nation-Building: Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Review, by Karlo Basta, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Volume 49, Issue 01, March 2016, pp 173–174.
  • Review, by Jan Erk, Public Administration, Volume 92, Issue 2, June 2014, pp. 518–524.
  • Review, by Dmitry Gorenburg in Perspectives on Politics, Volume 12 / Issue 02 / June 2014, pp 512–513.
  • Review, by Neovi M. Karakatsanis Journal of Modern Greek Studies Volume 32, Number 1, May 2014 p. 210-12.
  • Review, by Serhun Al in International Studies Review, Volume 16, Issue 2, June 2014, pp. 323–324.
  • Review, by Jan Jakub Muś in Nationalities Papers, Volume 42, Issue 5, 2014, pp. 905–906.
  • Review, by Jan Erk in Nations and Nationalism, Volume 20, Issue 3, July 2014, pp. 594–595.
  • Review, by Roberto Belloni in Südosteuropa, 61 (2013), 4, p. 595-597.
  • Review, by Georgi Derluguian in Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, Volume 28/29, 2012/2013, pp. 399–401.
  • Review by Olena Podolian in Europe-Asia Studies, Volume 66, No. 10, December 2014, pp. 1735–1737.
  • Review, by A. Paczynska. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, Oct 2013 v51 i2 p350(1).
• 2012. “The Promethean Dilemma: Third-Party State-building in Occupied Territories”, Ethnopolitics, Issue 1, March, pp. 85–93 (with Keith Darden).
• 2011. "Is Greece a Failing Developed State?", in Botsiou, Konstantina E.; Klapsis, Antonis (eds.) The Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Yearbook 2011: The Global Economic Crisis and the Case of Greece. Springer.
• 2010. “Assimilation and its Alternatives: Caveats in the Study of Nation-Building Policies", In Rethinking Violence: States and Non-State Actors in Conflict, eds. Adria Lawrence and Erica Chenoweth. BCSIA Studies in International Security, MIT Press.
• 2008. “When do Votes Count? Regime Type, Electoral Conduct, and Political Competition in Africa.” Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 41, No. 11, 1466-1491 (with Nasos Roussias).

References

External links

• Harris Mylonas on Elliott School of International Affairs
• Harris Mylonas on George Washington University