The George Washington University

Faculty Member, Political Science

Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

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Harris Mylonas joined the Elliott School of International Affairs in Fall 2009 as Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 2008, and completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Athens, Greece. For 2008-2009 and 2011-2012 academic years, he was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.

Professor Mylonas' book,The Politics of Nation-Building: The Making of Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press), identifies the conditions in which the ruling political elites of a state target minorities with assimilationist policies instead of granting them minority rights or excluding them from the state. The theory is tested against a variety of alternative explanations on multiple levels of analysis: a dataset of nation-building policies towards all non-core groups in Southeastern Europe after WWI, archival evidence on case studies focusing on the treatment of a few non-core groups over time, and a micro level sub-national study of a religiously, culturally, and linguistically heterogeneous province.

His second book project--tentatively entitled The Politics of Repatriation in Europe--focuses on the policies that states develop either to attract and/or to incorporate people returning to their country of origin, allegiance, or citizenship.

Professor Mylonas has published articles on a wide range of topics:the Greek financial crisis in The Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Yearbook 2011: The Global Economic Crisis and the Case of Greece (Springer); third-party nation-building in occupied territories, forthcoming in Ethnopolitics (with Keith Darden); nation-building in the Western Greek Macedonia in Rethinking Violence: State and Non-State Actors in Conflict (BCSIA International Security Series, MIT Press); electoral competition in Sub-Saharan Africa elections in Comparative Political Studies (with Nasos Roussias); and, Greek repatriation policies in Immigrants and Minorities: Discourse and Policies (Vivliorama/KEMO, with Elpida Vogli). He has also published articles in international newspapers and magazines (Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, the Guardian, Newsweek Japan, CNN.com, Turkish Daily News among others).

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