Harris Mylonas

Harris Mylonas is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University and the editor-in-chief for Nationalities Papers, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press.

He also served as an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in 2008–09 and 2011–12 academic years.

He joined the faculty of the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University in 2009.

"Regional multilateralism: The next paradigm in global affairs ", 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.

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.

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.

"The Promethean Dilemma in Third-Party Nation-Building", The Monkey Cage, September 20th 2012.

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.

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.

2012. “Greece,” European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook, Volume 51, Issue 1: 122-128; George Th.

Mavrogordatos and Harris Mylonas.

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 and the 2014 European Studies Book Award by the Council for European Studies.

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.

“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.

2013. “Greece,” European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook, Volume 52, Issue 1: 87–95; George Th.

Mavrogordatos and 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.

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.

2016. "Between Trump and the Troika: Greece After the U.S. Election," Foreign Affairs, November 16; Akis Georgakellos and Harris Mylonas.

2017. "The Volatile State of Greek Politics," Foreign Affairs, September 27; Akis Georgakellos and Harris Mylonas.

Mylonas served as Associate Dean for Research in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University during 2017–18.

Books

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.

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.

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.

He also served as the chair of the Council for European Studies’ Historical Study of States and Regimes Research Network from 2019 to 2021.

Mylonas completed his undergraduate degree at The University of Athens, received an M.A. in political science from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.