The politics of nation-building : making co-nationals, refugees, and minorities

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Title:

Author:

Mylonas, Harris, 1978-

ISBN:

9781107020450

9781107661998

Personal Author:

Mylonas, Harris, 1978-

Publication Information:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 255 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Problems of international politics

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Introduction -- The international politics of assimilation, accommodation, & exclusion -- Why the Balkans? -- Explaining cross-national variation: nation-building in post-World War I Balkans -- Explaining odd cases -- Explaining subnational variation: Greek nation-building in western Macedonia, 1916-1920 -- Explaining temporal variation: Serbian nation-building toward Albanians, 1878-1941; nation-building in the revisionist Kingdom of Serbia; nation-building in the status quo Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes -- Generalizability -- Conclusion.

Subject Term:

Nation-building -- Balkan Peninsula -- History.

Minorities -- Government policy -- Balkan Peninsula.

Ethnic groups -- Government policy -- Balkan Peninsula.

Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- Balkan Peninsula.

Nationalism -- Balkan Peninsula.

Geographic Term:

Balkan Peninsula -- Ethnic relations.

Balkan Peninsula -- Foreign relations.

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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.