Harris Mylonas
Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Ph.D., Yale University, 2008
Office: Monroe 406
Phone: (202) 994-1466
Email: mylonas@gwu.edu
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Website: http://home.gwu.edu/~mylonas
Expertise
Comparative Politics, International Relations, Nation-Building in the Balkans
Background
Professor Mylonas is teaching classes on Nationalism, Nation-Building in the Balkans, European Integration, and Qualitative Research Methods. His research focuses on the processes of nation- and state-building, as well as immigrant and refugee incorporation policies. He is working on a book manuscript entitled "Making Nations: The International Politics of Assimilation, Accommodation, and Exclusion." His manuscript 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. Mylonas has published on electoral competition in Sub-Saharan Africa elections in Comparative Political Studies (with Nasos Roussias). He has written a chapter entitled “Assimilation and its Alternatives: Caveats in the Study of Nation-Building Policies" in the forthcoming volume, “Rethinking Violence: State and Non-State Actors in Conflict” (BCSIA International Security Series, MIT Press). He has also published opinion pieces in Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, Newsweek Japan, Baltimore Sun, Turkish Daily News, The Age. Professor Mylonas was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, 2008-2009.
