Why and how kin-states engage populations abroad -- Kin-state nationalism and governing legitimacy -- Kin-state nationalism, diaspora politics, and political competition -- Kin-state engagement and European integration -- The politics of diaspora policy reform : from dual citizenship to economic development -- Kin-state nationalism and diaspora politics in Eastern Europe
Summary
Based on a qualitative study of Hungary and its changing relationship to the 3 million ethnic Hungarians in neighbouring states, this book argues that it is not the ties of ethnicity, but the political interests of kin-state elites that drives states in Eastern Europe to take action on behalf of ethnic kin in neighboring states
