Harris Mylonas

Harris Mylonas
Born (1978-11-16) November 16, 1978 (age 46)
Thessaloniki, Greece
Titleeditor-in-chief, Nationalities Papers
Academic background
EducationNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens (BA),
University of Chicago (MA),
Yale University (PhD),
Harvard University (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical Science
InstitutionsGeorge Washington University, Harvard University, Korea University
Main interestsnationalism, nation-building, diasporas, civil wars, migration.
Websiteharrismylonas.com

Harris Mylonas is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University[1] and the editor-in-chief for Nationalities Papers, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press.[2] He is the author of The Politics of Nation-Building: Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities, which was awarded the Peter Katzenstein Book Prize in September 2013[3] and the 2014 European Studies Book Award by the Council for European Studies.[4] He has co-authored Varieties of Nationalism: Communities, Narratives, Identities. and has co-edited Enemies Within: The Global Politics of Fifth Columns as well as The Microfoundations of Diaspora Politics. He is currently working on another book project, Diaspora Management Logics.[5] His documentary Searching for Andreas: Political Leadership in Times of Crisis (2018), which deals with the deep causes of the recent financial and political crisis in Greece, premiered at the 2018 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and won two awards at the 2019 International Documentary Festival of Ierapetra.

Mylonas has contributed to the ideas of nationalism, nation-building, state-building, fifth column politics and multilateralism through different publications and articles.[6] His recent TEDx talk Nation-building: Past, Present, Future summarizes his perspective on nationalism and nation-building through his family history. Mylonas has also contributed to the analysis of the Greek government-debt crisis.[7] He is a member of the board of directors of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, an academic association dedicated to the understanding of ethnicity and nationalism with a geographic focus in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, and Eurasia.[8] He also served as the chair of the Council for European Studies’ Historical Study of States and Regimes Research Network from 2019 to 2021.

  1. ^ Google scholar profile.
  2. ^ Nationalities Papers website. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  3. ^ "Peter Katzenstein Book Prize".
  4. ^ "European Studies Book Award". Council for European Studies. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
  5. ^ Mylonas, Harris. "Homepage". Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  6. ^ Harris Mylonas and Scott Radnitz. "The Disturbing Return of the Fifth Column: How Enemies Within—Real and Imagined—Are Influencing Geopolitics", Foreign Affairs, August 26th 2022; Scott Radnitz and Harris Mylonas. "Putin’s warning about Russian ‘fifth columns’ has a long, sordid lineage", Washington Post's Blog The Monkey Cage, March 30 2022; Harris Mylonas. “Whither Nation-Building?” e-International Relations, May 8th 2013; Harris Mylonas. “The Challenges of Nation-Building in the Syrian Arab Republic”, in The Political Science of Syria’s War, POMEPS Briefing #22, December 18th 2013, pp. 57-59; Harris Mylonas. 2013. “Revisiting the Link: Politicizing Religion in Democratizing Countries”, Harvard International Review, Vol. 34, Issue 4 (Spring), pp. 48-52; Harris Mylonas and Emirhan Yorulmazlar. "Regional multilateralism: The next paradigm in global affairs Archived 2022-03-25 at the Wayback Machine", CNN.com, January 14th 2011; Thomas Meaney and Harris Mylonas."The Pandora's box of sovereignty", Los Angeles Times, August 13th 2008; Wilder Bullard and Harris Mylonas. “This is no 1989 moment for the Arab world”, Guardian.co.uk, February 8, 2011; Keith Darden and Harris Mylonas. "The Promethean Dilemma in Third-Party Nation-Building", The Monkey Cage, September 20th 2012.
  7. ^ Akis Georgakellos and Harris Mylonas. 2023. "An Election Won’t End Greece’s Troubles: Sunday’s vote is unlikely to yield a new government," Foreign Policy, May 19; Harris Mylonas. 2019. "After a decade of crisis, Greek politics are turning normal and more technocratic," The Washington Post blog, The Monkey Cage, July 14; Harris Mylonas. 2017. "The Volatile State of Greek Politics," Foreign Affairs, September 27; Akis Georgakellos and Harris Mylonas. 2016. "Between Trump and the Troika: Greece After the U.S. Election," Foreign Affairs, November 16; Akis Georgakellos and Harris Mylonas. 2015. "Greece just called new elections. Here’s the background you need to understand them," Foreign Affairs, August 20;Harris Mylonas. 2015. "The Agreekment that could break Europe: Euroskeptics, Eurocritics, and Life After the Bailout," Foreign Affairs, July 14; Harris Mylonas. 2014. "Democratic Politics in Times of Austerity: The Limits of Forced Reform in Greece," Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 12, No. 2 (June): 435-443; Harris Mylonas. 2013. “Greece,” European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook, Volume 52, Issue 1: 87–95; George Th. Mavrogordatos and Harris Mylonas. 2012. “Greece,” European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook, Volume 51, Issue 1: 122-128; George Th. Mavrogordatos and Harris Mylonas. 2011. “Greece,” European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook, Volume 50, Issue 7-8: 985-990; Harris Mylonas. 2011. "Is Greece a Failing Developed State?" in Botsiou, Konstantina E.; Klapsis, Antonis (eds.) The Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Yearbook 2011: The Global Economic Crisis and the Case of Greece. Springer.
  8. ^ "Board of Directors". Association for the Study of Nationalities. Retrieved 13 September 2013.