1st Edition
Governing Diasporas in International Relations The Transnational Politics of Croatia and Former Yugoslavia
By Francesco Ragazzi
Copyright 2017
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book analyzes how states extend their sovereignty beyond their territories through the language of diasporas.
An increasing number of states are interested in supporting, managing or controlling their populations abroad, something they define as their ‘diaspora’. Yet what does it mean for governments to formulate claims of sovereignty over populations who reside outside the very borders... Read more
1. An international political sociology of diaspora politics
2. Seeing like an emigration state (1880-1991)
3. Croatian diaspora nationalism and the transnational political field (1945-1987)
4. Croatia, a diaspora forged in war (1987-1993)
5. Diaspora as a state category
6. Diasporic citizenship, territory and the politics of belonging
7. Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina: Diaspora, territory, annexation.
8. Conclusion: theorizing the government of diasporas
Biography
Francesco Ragazzi is Lecturer in International Relations at Leiden University, The Netherlands, and associated scholar at the CERI/Sciences Po Paris and at the Centre d’Etude sur les Conflits, Liberté et Sécurité, France.
