Harris Mylonas | |
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Title | editor-in-chief, Nationalities Papers |
Academic background | |
Education | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (BA), University of Chicago (MA), Yale University (PhD), Harvard University (Postdoctoral Fellow) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Political Science |
Institutions | George Washington University,Harvard University,Korea University |
Main interests | nationalism,nation-building,diasporas,civil wars,migration. |
Website | harrismylonas |
Harris Mylonas is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University [1] and the editor-in-chief for Nationalities Papers ,a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press. [2] 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 [3] and the 2014 European Studies Book Award by the Council for European Studies. [4] He has co-authored Varieties of Nationalism:Communities,Narratives,Identities. and has co-edited Enemies Within:The Global Politics of Fifth Columns as well as The Microfoundations of Diaspora Politics. He is currently working on another book project,Diaspora Management Logics. [5] 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,nation-building,state-building,fifth column politics and multilateralism through different publications and articles. [6] His recent TEDx talk Nation-building:Past,Present,Future summarizes his perspective on nationalism and nation-building through his family history. Mylonas has also contributed to the analysis of the Greek government-debt crisis. [7] He is a member of the board of directors 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. [8] He also served as the chair of the Council for European Studies ’Historical Study of States and Regimes Research Network from 2019 to 2021.
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 2017–18.
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Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement,it presupposes the existence of nations and tends to promote the interests of a particular nation,especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining its sovereignty (self-governance) over its perceived homeland to create a nation-state. It holds that each nation should govern itself,free from outside interference (self-determination),that a nation is a natural and ideal basis for a polity,and that the nation is the only rightful source of political power. It further aims to build and maintain a single national identity,based on a combination of shared social characteristics such as culture,ethnicity,geographic location,language,politics,religion,traditions and belief in a shared singular history,and to promote national unity or solidarity. Nationalism,therefore,seeks to preserve and foster a nation's traditional culture. There are various definitions of a "nation",which leads to different types of nationalism. The two main divergent forms identified by scholars are ethnic nationalism and civic nationalism.
A nation is a large type of social organization where a collective identity has emerged from a combination of shared features across a given population,such as language,history,ethnicity,culture,territory or society. Some nations are constructed around ethnicity while others are bound by political constitutions.
Greater Albania is an irredentist and nationalist concept that seeks to unify the lands that many Albanians consider to form their national homeland. It is based on claims on the present-day or historical presence of Albanian populations in those areas. In addition to the existing Albania,the term incorporates claims to regions in the neighbouring states,the areas include Kosovo,the Preševo Valley of Serbia,territories in southern Montenegro,northwestern Greece,and a western part of North Macedonia.
Relations between Greece and Turkey began in the 1830s following Greece's formation after its declaration of independence from the Ottoman Empire. Modern relations began when Turkey declared its formation in 1923 following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I.
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 to Harris Mylonas,"Legitimate authority in modern national states is connected to popular rule,to majorities. Nation-building is the process through which these majorities are constructed." In Harris Mylonas's framework,"state elites employ three nation-building policies:accommodation,assimilation,and exclusion."
A stateless nation is an ethnic group or nation that does not possess its own sovereign state. The term "stateless" implies that the group has the right to self-determination,to establish an independent nation with its own government. Members of stateless nations may be citizens of the country in which they live,or they may be denied citizenship by that country. Stateless nations are usually not represented in international sports or in international organisations such as the United Nations. Nations without a state are classified as fourth-world nations. Some stateless nations have a history of statehood,while some were always stateless.
Civic nationalism,also known as democratic nationalism and liberal nationalism,is a form of nationalism that adheres to traditional liberal values of freedom,tolerance,equality,individual rights and is not based on ethnocentrism. Civic nationalists often defend the value of national identity by saying that individuals need it as a partial shared aspect of their identity in order to lead meaningful,autonomous lives and that democratic polities need a national identity to function properly.
Russian nationalism is a form of nationalism that promotes Russian cultural identity and unity. Russian nationalism first rose to prominence as a Pan-Slavic enterprise during the 19th century Russian Empire,and was repressed during the early Bolshevik rule. Russian nationalism was briefly revived through the policies of Joseph Stalin during and after the Second World War,which shared many resemblances with the worldview of early Eurasianist ideologues.
Ethnic democracy is a political system that combines a structured ethnic dominance with democratic,political and civil rights for all. Both the dominant ethnic group and the minority ethnic groups have citizenship and are able to fully participate in the political process. Ethnic democracy differs from ethnocracy in that elements of it are more purely democratic. It provides the non-core groups with more political participation,influence and improvement of status than ethnocracy supposedly does. Nor is an ethnic democracy a Herrenvolk democracy which is by definition a democracy officially limited to the core ethnic nation only.
Albanian nationalism is a general grouping of nationalist ideas and concepts generated by ethnic Albanians that were first formed in the 19th century during the Albanian National Awakening. Albanian nationalism is also associated with similar concepts,such as Albanianism and Pan-Albanianism,that includes ideas on the creation of a geographically expanded Albanian state or a Greater Albania encompassing adjacent Balkan lands with substantial Albanian populations.
Among scholars of nationalism,a number of types of nationalism have been presented. Nationalism may manifest itself as part of official state ideology or as a popular non-state movement and may be expressed along civic,ethnic,language,religious or ideological lines. These self-definitions of the nation are used to classify types of nationalism,but such categories are not mutually exclusive and many nationalist movements combine some or all of these elements to varying degrees. Nationalist movements can also be classified by other criteria,such as scale and location.
The World Macedonian Congress is a Macedonian diaspora organization based in Skopje. It presents itself as an organization fighting and demanding for more human rights to ethnic Macedonians on an international level,but is seen as a nationalist or ultranationalist organization by researchers. The organization was registered during the fall of communism,on 15 September 1990 by Todor Petrov,who is also the president of the organization.
Nationalities Papers is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press for the Association for the Study of Nationalities. The editor-in-chief is Harris Mylonas. It publishes articles on nationalism,minorities,and ethnic conflict,with a regional focus on Central and Eastern Europe,the Balkans,the former Soviet Union,Turkey,and Central Asia. The journal is interdisciplinary,with authors from a variety of backgrounds,including history,political science,sociology,anthropology,and literature. Nationalities Papers started in 1972 and currently publishes 6 issues per year.
Ethnic nationalism,also known as ethnonationalism,is a form of nationalism wherein the nation and nationality are defined in terms of ethnicity,with emphasis on an ethnocentric approach to various political issues related to national affirmation of a particular ethnic group.
Razmik Panossian is a Canadian-Armenian historian and political scientist.
Antiquization,otherwise known as ancient Macedonism,is a term used mainly to critically describe the identity policies conducted by the nationalist VMRO-DPMNE-led governments of North Macedonia in the period between 2006 and 2017. In the contemporary Macedonian discourse,antiquization refers to the identitarian policies based on the assumption that there is a direct link between today's ethnic Macedonians and Ancient Macedonians. The politics of the ex-Yugoslav era therefore not only embrace the revival of the ancient heritage of the Ancient Macedonians,including the heritage of Philip II and his son Alexander the Great,but also seek to depict a coherent continuity of history and descendancy from the ancient Kingdom of Macedon until the modern Republic of North Macedonia in order to prove the uninterrupted existence of the contemporary Macedonians. Criticized as pseudohistoric,this idea remains widespread in North Macedonia despite the fact that there is no evidence for the alleged ethnic continuum.
Kosovo is the birthplace of the Albanian nationalist movement which emerged as a response to the Eastern Crisis of 1878. In the immediate aftermath of the Russo-Ottoman war,the Congress of Berlin proposed partitioning Ottoman Albanian inhabited lands in the Balkans among neighbouring countries. The League of Prizren was formed by Albanians to resist those impositions. For Albanians those events have made Kosovo an important place regarding the emergence of Albanian nationalism. During the remainder of the late Ottoman period various disagreements between Albanian nationalists and the Ottoman Empire over socio-cultural rights culminated in two revolts within Kosovo and adjacent areas. The Balkan Wars (1912–13) ending with Ottoman defeat,Serbian and later Yugoslav sovereignty over the area generated an Albanian nationalism that has become distinct to Kosovo stressing Albanian language,culture,and identity within the context of secession from Serbia. Pan-Albanian sentiments are also present and historically have been achieved only once when part of Kosovo was united by Italian Axis forces to their protectorate of Albania during the Second World War.
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.
Slovenia–Turkey relations are the foreign relations between Slovenia and Turkey. Slovenia has an embassy in Ankara. Turkey has an embassy in Ljubljana. Both countries are members of the Council of Europe and NATO. Slovenia is a member of the European Union,Turkey is not a member.
Greek ethnicity and Greek citizenship are two distinct legal statuses,both being derived from Greek citizenship law. Thus,Greek ethnicity establishes the requirement for the right to apply for Greek citizenship due to descent.