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Book

The Politics of Nation-Building: Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Prizes:
-Winner of the 2014 European Studies Book Award, Council for European Studies
-Winner of the 2013 Peter Katzenstein Book Prize, Cornell University
-Honourable Mention, 2014 Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies, Association for the Study of Nationalities

Book Symposium in Nationalities Papers, edited by Şener Aktürk, with review essays by Kristin Fabbe; Matthew Adam Kocher; Yonca Köksal and my response.

Reviews:
Public Administration
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Perspectives on Politics, Nations and Nationalism,
International Studies Review
, Nationalities Papers, Südosteuropa, Europe-Asia Studies, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Journal of Peace Research, e-International Relations, Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, Choice, The Books Journal (in Greek)

Greek edition:
"Οικοδομώντας το Έθνος". Translation by Elpida Vogli. Published in Thessaloniki by Epikentro Academic Publishing, 2016.


Articles

2016. Threats to Territorial Integrity, National Mass Schooling, and Linguistic Commonality,” Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 49, No. 11: 1446-1479 (with Keith Darden).

2016. "The Politics of Nation-Building Revisited: A Response to Fabbe, Kocher, and Köksal," Nationalities Papers, Volume 44, Issue 3: 496-502.

2015. "Methodological Problems in the Study of Nation-Building: Behaviorism and Historicist Solutions in Political Science," Social Science Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 3: 740–758.

2014. "Which Land is Our Land? Domestic Politics and Change in the Territorial Claims of Stateless Nationalist Movements," Security Studies, Vol. 23, Issue 4, 754-786  (with Nadav Shelef).

2014. "Democratic Politics in Times of Austerity: The Limits of Forced Reform in Greece," Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 12, No. 2 (June): 435-443.

2014. "Interstate Relations, Perceptions, And Power Balance: Explaining China’s Policies Toward Ethnic Groups, 1949-1965," Security Studies, Vol. 23, Issue 1, 148-181 (with Enze Han).

2012. "The Promethean Dilemma: Third-Party State-building in Occupied Territories," Ethnopolitics, Issue 1, March, pp. 85-93 (with Keith Darden).

2012.
"The Promethean Dilemma Revisited: A Response to Bardos, Christia, Gortzak &Siroky and Jenne," Ethnopolitics, Issue 1, March, pp. 109-112 (with Keith Darden).

2008. "When do Votes Count? Regime Type, Electoral Conduct, and Political Competition in Africa," Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 41, No. 11, 1466-1491 (with Nasos Roussias).

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European Journal of Political Research

Forthcoming. "Greece," European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook, Volume 55, Issue 1.

2015. "Greece," European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook, Volume 54, Issue 1: 125-132.

2014. "Greece," European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook, Volume 53, Issue 1: 140-147.

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

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

2011. “Greece,” European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook, Volume 50, Issue 7-8: 985-990 (with George Th. Mavrogordatos).

Book Chapters

Forthcoming. "The Political Consequences of the Crisis in Greece: Charismatic Leadership and its Discontents," in Evdoxios Doxiadis and Aimee Placas (eds.). Living Under Austerity: Greek Society in Crisis. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books.

2013. “Ethnic Return Migration, Selective Incentives, and the Right to Freedom of Movement in Post-Cold War Greece,” in Willem Maas (ed.). Democratic Citizenship and the Free Movement of People. Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff.

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.

2010. “Assimilation and its Alternatives: Caveats in the Study of Nation-Building Policies," In  Rethinking Violence: States and Non-State Actors in Conflict, eds. Adria Lawrence and Erica Chenoweth. BCSIA Studies in International Security, MIT Press.

2010. “Hellenes are...Incorporation Strategies toward Co-Ethnic Repatriate Groups in Contemporary Greece (1990-2006)”  (with Elpida Vogli). In Immigrants and Minorities: Discourse and Policies, eds. Μiltos Pavlou & Αthena Skoulariki, Athens: Vivliorama/KEMO (Research Center for Minority Groups) [In Greek].

Invited Publications

2016. "Never Alone/Find the Way" in James Faubion, Eugenia Georges and Gonda Van Steen (eds.). Greece is Burning. Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology website (April 21).

2015. “From ‘Divide and Rule’ to Nation-Building,” Newsletter of the European Politics & Society Section of the American Political Science Association, (Summer): 17-19.

2015. “De Facto States Unbound,” PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo 374 (with Ariel Ahram).

2015. “The Agreekment That Could Break Europe: Euroskeptics, Eurocritics, and Life After the Bailout,” Foreign Affairs, July 14. Reprinted in Japanese.

2013. “The Challenges of Nation-Building in the Syrian Arab Republic,” in The Political Science of Syria’s War, POMEPS Briefing #22 (December 18), pp. 57-59.

2013. "The Politics of Diaspora Management in the Republic of Korea," The Asan Institute for Policy Studies, Issue Brief No. 81, pp. 1-12.

2013. “Whither Nation-Building?e-International Relations.
 
2013. “Revisiting the Link: Politicizing Religion in Democratizing Countries,” Harvard International Review, Vol. 34, Issue 4 (Spring), pp. 48-52.

2012. "The Future of Euro-Atlantic Integration in the Western Balkans," in Alexander Schmemann and Cory Welt (eds.). Bridging Divides in Eastern Europe. Washington, DC: PONARS Eurasia.

2010. "New Trends in the Data on Religion and Democracy" in Report of the Georgetown Symposium on Religion, Democracy, and the Foreign Policy of the Obama Administration (November 3, 2009). Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, pp. 11-17.

2003. “The Comparative Method & the Study of Civil Wars,” Science and Society, Issue 11: 1-35. [In Greek].

 
Book Reviews

2016. Review of Paschalis M. Kitromilides. 2013. Enlightenment and Revolution: The Making of Modern Greece. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. In Nations and Nationalism, Volume 22, Issue 3: pages 598–600.

2015. Review of Kostis Kornetis. Children of the Dictatorship: Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the "Long 1960s" in Greece. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2013. In The American Historical Review, 120 (4): 1563-1565.


2015. Review of Onur Yıldırım. 2012. Diplomacy and Displacement: Reconsidering the Turco-Greek Exchange of Populations, 1922-1934. New York and London: Routledge. In Journal of Cold War Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3: 268-270.

2015. Review of Adria Lawrence. 2013. Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press. In H-Diplo and the International Security Studies Forum Roundtable, Volume VII, No. 18.

2015. Review of Dan Lainer-Vos. 2013. Sinews of the Nation: Constructing Irish and Zionist bonds in the United States. Cambridge: Polity Press. In Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Vol. 21, Issue 2: 264-266.

2012. Review of Carole McGranahan. 2010.  Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. In Journal of Cold War Studies, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Spring): 154-156. 

2010.Review of Bruce Clark. 2006. Twice a Stranger: The Mass Expulsions that Forged Modern Greece and Turkey. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. In Nationalities Papers,  Vol. 38, No. 4: 578-580.

2009. Review of Alexandros Yannis. 2009. From “I” to “We”. Foreign Policy in the Era of the European Union and Globalization. Athens: Papazisis. In The Greek Political Science Review, No. 34: 154-156. [In Greek]

2009. Review of Vogli, Elpida. 2007. “Greek by descent”: Identity and Citizenship in Modern Greece, 1821-1844. Heraklion: Crete University Press. In The Greek Political Science Review, No. 33: 146-149. [In Greek]

2001. Review of Politis, Alexis. 1998 (2nd). Romantic Years. Ideologies and attitudes in Greece of 1830-1880. Athens: Mnimon. In Filelefthere Emphase [Liberal Emphasis], No. 7: 151-53. [In Greek]

Monograph

2002.Aliens & Refugees. National Integration and Parliamentary Elections in Salonica: 1910-1923. National Center for Social Research (EKKE), Greek Social Data Bank [in Greek].











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