Ask what you can do for your (new) country: how host states use diasporas

Ask What You Can Do for Your (New) Country focuses on a previously unexamined phenomenon: when, how and for what reasons host states use diasporas and the ethnic lobbies they generate to advance foreign policy goals. Nadejda K Marinova develops a theoretical model for determing the conditions under which a host state will decide to promote and utilize an ethnic lobby, and she tests it against eight cases, delving into the multiple avenues in which it takes place, across a variety of regimes and political, security and commercial matters.

'Ask What You Can Do For Your (New) Country' focuses on a previously unexamined phenomenon: how host governments utilize diasporas to advance their foreign policy agendas in mutually beneficial ways. The text advances a four-factor theoretical model to analyze the phenomenon for when this occurs, and it delves into the multiple avenues across which it takes place, in a variety of regimes, and across political, security, and commercial matters, proposing a classification with examples worldwide.