The Politics of Nation-Building: Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities

The Politics of Nation-Building: Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities
ISBN-10
1139619810
ISBN-13
9781139619813
Category
Political Science
Language
English
Published
2013-02-18
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Harris Mylonas

Description

What drives a state's choice to assimilate, accommodate or exclude ethnic groups within its territory? In this innovative work on the international politics of nation-building, Harris Mylonas argues that a state's nation-building policies toward non-core groups - individuals perceived as an ethnic group by the ruling elite of a state - are influenced by both its foreign policy goals and its relations with the external patrons of these groups. Through a detailed study of the Balkans, Mylonas shows that how a state treats a non-core group within its own borders is determined largely by whether the state's foreign policy is revisionist or cleaves to the international status quo, and whether it is allied or in rivalry with that group's external patrons. Mylonas injects international politics into the study of nation-building, building a bridge between international relations and the comparative politics of ethnicity and nationalism.

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