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Harris Mylonas
Harris Mylonas is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the George Washington University. His research focuses on the processes of nation- and state-building, as well as immigrant and refugee incorporation policies. His forthcoming book entitled "The Politics of Nation-Building: The Making of Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities" (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.
Mylonas has published on electoral competition in Sub-Saharan Africa elections in Comparative Political Studies (with Nasos Roussias), a chapter entitled "Assimilation and its Alternatives: Caveats in the Study of Nation-Building Policies" in Rethinking Violence: State and Non-State Actors in Conflict (BCSIA International Security Series, MIT Press), and has a forthcoming article on third-party nation-building in occupied territories in Ethnopolitics (with Keith Darden). He has also published opinion pieces in Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, Guardian, Newsweek Japan, Turkish Daily News, The Age and Kathimerini. Professor Mylonas was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies in 2008-2009 and 2011-2012."