Harris Mylonas is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at

George Washington University , mottoeng = "God is Our Trust" , established = , type = Private federally chartered research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $2.8 billion (2022) , presi ...

and the editor-in-chief for '' Nationalities Papers'', a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press. 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 and the 2014 European Studies Book Award by the Council for European Studies. He has co-edited
Enemies Within: The Global Politics of Fifth Columns
' as well as
The Microfoundations of Diaspora Politics
' and is currently working on another book project, ''Diaspora Management Logics''. His documentary
Searching for Andreas: Political Leadership in Times of Crisis
' (2018), which deals with the deep causes of the recent financial and political crisis in Greece, premiered at the 2018 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and won two awards at the 2019 International Documentary Festival of Ierapetra. Mylonas has contributed to the ideas of

nationalism Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the State (polity), state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a in-group and out-group, group of peo ...

nation-building Nation-building is constructing or structuring a national identity using the power of the state. Nation-building aims at the unification of the people within the state so that it remains politically stable and viable in the long run. According ...

, state-building,

fifth column A fifth column is any group of people who undermine a larger group or nation from within, usually in favor of an enemy group or another nation. According to Harris Mylonas and Scott Radnitz, "fifth columns" are “domestic actors who work to un ...

and

multilateralism In international relations, multilateralism refers to an alliance of multiple countries pursuing a common goal. Definitions Multilateralism, in the form of membership in international institutions, serves to bind powerful nations, discourage ...

through different publications and articles. He has also contributed to the analysis of the

Greek government-debt crisis Greece faced a sovereign debt crisis in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2007–2008. Widely known in the country as The Crisis ( Greek: Η Κρίση), it reached the populace as a series of sudden reforms and austerity measures that ...

. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the

Association for the Study of Nationalities The Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) is an academic association dedicated to the promotion of knowledge and understanding of ethnicity, nationalism, and ethnic conflict broadly, with a particular geographic focus on Central, East ...

, an academic association dedicated to the understanding of ethnicity and nationalism with a geographic focus in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, and Eurasia. He also served as the chair of the '' Council for European Studies''�
Historical Study of States and Regimes Research Network
from 2019 to 2021.

Academic career

Mylonas completed his undergraduate degree at The University of Athens, received an M.A. in political science from the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

, and a Ph.D. in political science from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the w ...

. He joined the faculty of the Elliott School of International Affairs at the

in 2009. He also served as an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies at the

Weatherhead Center for International Affairs A weatherhead, also called a weathercap, service head, service entrance cap, or gooseneck (slang) is a weatherproof service drop entry point where overhead power or telephone wires enter a building, or where wires transition between overhead a ...

in 2008–09 and 2011–12 academic years.Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
website. Retrieved 13 September 2015. Mylonas served as Associate Dean for Research in the Elliott School of International Affairs at

during 2017–18.

Selected publications

Books * 2022.
Enemies Within: The Global Politics of Fifth Columns.
' New York: Cambridge University Press (co-edited with Scott Radnitz). * 2022.
The Microfoundations of Diaspora Politics.
' Routledge (co-edited with Alexandra Délano Alonso). * 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.

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 Georgi M. Derluguian (russian: Гео́ргий Матве́евич Дерлугья́н; hy, Գեորգի Դերլուգյան; born 25 October 1961), ''also tr.'' Georgy Derlugyan, is a sociologist and historian of Armenian, Russian and Ukrai ...

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). Articles *2022. " Pandemic Nationalism," ''Nationalities Papers'', Vol. 50, Issue 1: 3-12 (with Ned Whalley). *2022. " Nation-Building and the Role of Identity in Civil Wars," ''Ethnopolitics'', Vol. 21, Issue 1: 1-21 (with Kendrick Kuo). *2021.
Nationalism: What We Know and What We Still Need to Know
''

Annual Review of Political Science ''Annual Review of Political Science'' is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Annual Reviews, covering significant developments in the field of political science, including political theory and philosophy, international relatio ...

'', Volume 24: 109-132. (with Maya Tudor). *2021.
Exchange on the quantitative measurement of ethnic and national identity
''Nations and Nationalism'', Volume 27, Issue 1: 22-40. (with Daniel Bochsler, Elliott Green, Erin Jenne, and

Andreas Wimmer Andreas Wimmer is a Swiss sociologist who is the Lieber Professor of Sociology and Political Philosophy at Columbia University. He has a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Zurich. He is known for his research on nationalism, na ...

). *2020.
The Determinants of Successful Nation-building: Macro-sociological Political Modernization and Political Alliance Structures
''Nationalities Papers''. *2020.
Nation-Building
" ''Oxford Bibliographies'' in International Relations. *2019
Nation‐building policies in the Balkans: an Ottoman or a manufactured legacy?
" ''Nations and Nationalism'', Volume 25, Issue 3: 866-887. *2019
The microfoundations of diaspora politics: unpacking the state and disaggregating the diaspora
" ''Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies'', Volume 45, Issue 4: 473-491 (with Alexandra Délano Alonso) *2019
Foreign policy priorities and ethnic return migration policies: group-level variation in Greece and Serbia
" ''Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies'', Volume 45, Issue 4: 613-635 (with Marko Žilović) *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 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

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