The politics of nation-building: making co-nationals, refugees, and minorities

Introduction -- The international politics of assimilation, accommodation, & exclusion -- Why the Balkans? -- Explaining cross-national variation: nation-building in post-World War I Balkans -- Explaining odd cases -- Explaining subnational variation: Greek nation-building in western Macedonia, 1916-1920 -- Explaining temporal variation: Serbian nation-building toward Albanians, 1878-1941; nation-building in the revisionist Kingdom of Serbia; nation-building in the status quo Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes -- Generalizability -- Conclusion.

Cover; The Politics of Nation-Building: Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities; Problems of International Politics; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures, Maps, Tables, Graph, and Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Preface; 1 Introduction; THE PUZZLE; THE ARGUMENT; WHY STUDY NATION-BUILDING POLICIES?; BOOK PLAN; PART I: THEORY; 2 The International Politics of Assimilation, Accommodation, and Exclusion; NATION-BUILDING POLICIES: ASSIMILATION, ACCOMMODATION, AND EXCLUSION; ACTORS: HOST STATE, NON-CORE GROUP, EXTERNAL POWER. - Host State: The Core Group and Its Ruling Political ElitesState Capacity; Non-Core Group; A Statist Perspective; Organization; Political Demands; External Power; Motivations for External Involvement; Effects of External Involvement; A GEOSTRATEGIC ARGUMENT: ALLIANCES AND FOREIGN POLICY GOALS; Configuration I: Immunization Through Assimilation; Configuration II: Accommodation of Non-Core Groups Supported by Allies; Configuration III: Exclusion of Enemy-Supported Groups in Revisionist States; Configuration IV: Assimilation of Enemy-Supported Groups in Status Quo States; Possible Causal Paths. - CONCLUSIONPART II: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; 3 Why the Balkans?; OTTOMAN LEGACY IN THE BALKANS; The Millet System; The Emergence of New Nation-States; The Antecedents of Nation-Building in the Balkans; GREAT POWERS, BALKAN STATES, AND THE "EASTERN QUESTION"; THE BALKAN STATES FOLLOWING WORLD WAR I; The "Defeated"; The "Victors"; A Bystander; 4 Cross-National Variation: Nation-Building in Post-World War I Balkans; RESEARCH DESIGN: OPERATIONALIZATION AND MEASUREMENT; The Dependent Variable: Nation-Building Policies; Independent Variables; ANALYSIS; Patterns: Descriptive Statistics

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 - 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 bridge between international relations and the comparative politics of ethnicity and nationalism