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Reviewed by Leslie Waters

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  • In her examination of kin-state nationalism, the political engagement of populations beyond a state’s borders on the basis of ethnic similarity, Myra A

  • “What drives states to engage their ethnic diasporas across the border? Why do some states expend economic and diplomatic capital, risk interstate tension, and open themselves to new and unpredictable claims on its resources by extending special rights, benefits, and the protection of its institutions to residents and citizens of other states?” (3) Utilizing post-communist Hungary as the primary case-study, Waterbury concludes that the conventional explanatory factor – the resurgence of ethnic nationalism post-1989 – does not fully explain Hungary’s increased, yet at times ambivalent, involvement with its ethnic diaspora in Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, and Serbia over the past two and a half decades

  • Waterbury briefly treats the interwar and post-war periods, establishing precedent for post-1989 diaspora policies in the Horthy era. She challenges the notion that kin-state nationalism lost its appeal after World War II, noting that “the idea of the larger transborder nation never lost its symbolic importance as a source of governing legitimacy” even in the Stalinist period

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Introduction

In her examination of kin-state nationalism, the political engagement of populations beyond a state’s borders on the basis of ethnic similarity, Myra A. Why do some states expend economic and diplomatic capital, risk interstate tension, and open themselves to new and unpredictable claims on its resources by extending special rights, benefits, and the protection of its institutions to residents and citizens of other states?” (3) Utilizing post-communist Hungary as the primary case-study, Waterbury concludes that the conventional explanatory factor – the resurgence of ethnic nationalism post-1989 – does not fully explain Hungary’s increased, yet at times ambivalent, involvement with its ethnic diaspora in Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, and Serbia over the past two and a half decades.

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