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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779587803321

Autore

Mylonas Harris <1978->

Titolo

The politics of nation-building : making co-nationals, refugees, and minorities / / Harris Mylonas [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-139-61051-1

1-107-23561-8

1-139-62539-X

1-107-25442-6

1-139-10400-4

1-139-61609-9

1-139-61237-9

1-139-62167-X

1-283-94355-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiii, 255 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Problems of international politics

Disciplina

327.1/1

Soggetti

Nation-building - Balkan Peninsula - History

Minorities - Government policy - Balkan Peninsula

Ethnic groups - Government policy - Balkan Peninsula

Ethnicity - Political aspects - Balkan Peninsula

Nationalism - Balkan Peninsula

Balkan Peninsula Ethnic relations

Balkan Peninsula Foreign relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The international politics of assimilation, accommodation, and exclusion -- Why the Balkans? -- Cross-national variation : nation-building in post-World War I Balkans -- Odd cases : analysis of outliers -- Subnational variation : Greek nation-building in Western Macedonia, 1916-1920 -- Temporal variation : Serbian nation-building toward Albanians, 1878-1941 -- Application of the theory beyond the Balkans -- Conclusion.



Sommario/riassunto

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.