Nation-Building: Past, Present, and Future | Harris Mylonas | TEDxFoggyBottom

Harris Mylonas is a GW professor and political scientist. His research focuses on nation- and state-building, diaspora policies, and political development. In his talk, Professor Mylonas intertwines his own history with the concepts of nation building to explore its continued significance. Harris Mylonas is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University and Editor-in-Chief of Nationalities Papers.
His work contributes to our understanding of states’ management of diversity that may originate from national minorities, immigrants, diasporas, or refugees. Mylonas is particularly interested in the role of decision makers’ perceptions about foreign involvement in their domestic affairs and the impact these perceptions have on the planning and implementation of state policies.
Mylonas is the author of the award-winning The Politics of Nation-Building (Cambridge University Press), and co-editor of Enemies Within: Fifth Column Politics in Comparative Perspective (Oxford University Press; w/Scott Radnitz) and The Microfoundations of Diaspora Politics (Routledge; w/Alexandra Délano Alonso). He is currently co-authoring a book on nationalism with Maya Tudor and working on another single-authored book tentatively entitled Diaspora Management Logics-analyzing why some states develop policies to cultivate links with certain diasporic communities while others do not. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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