The Politics of Nation-Building Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities [Paperback]

Mylonas argues that foreign policy goals and international relations drives a state's assimilation or exclusion policies towards an ethnic group.This book identifies the conditions in which the ruling political elites of a state target ethnic groups with assimilationist policies instead of granting them minority rights or excluding them from the state. Harris Mylonas argues that a state's nation-building policies toward non-core groups  any aggregation of individuals perceived as an ethnic group by the ruling elite of a state  are influenced by both its foreign policy goals and its relations with external patrons of these groups.This book identifies the conditions in which the ruling political elites of a state target ethnic groups with assimilationist policies instead of granting them minority rights or excluding them from the state. Harris Mylonas argues that a state's nation-building policies toward non-core groups  any aggregation of individuals perceived as an ethnic group by the ruling elite of a state  are influenced by both its foreign policy goals and its relations with external patrons of these groups.What drives a state's choice to assimilate, accommodate, or exclude ethnic groups within its territory? In this innovative work on the international politics of nation-building, Harris Mylonas argues that a state's nation-building policies toward non-core groups  any aggregation of individuals perceived as an ethnic group by the ruling elite of a state  are influenced by both its foreign policy goals and its relations with the external patrons of these groups. Through a detailed study of the Balkans, Mylonas shows that how a state treats a non-core group within its own borders is determined largely by whether the state's foreign policy is revisionist or cleaves to the international status quo, and whether it is allied or in rivalry with that group's external patrons. Mylonas injects international politics into the study of nation-building, building a brl$