Journalist ROBERT KAPLAN. He's been a foreign correspondent for "The Atlantic," and "The New Republic." In the 1980s and early 1990s he was the first American writer to warn of the coming crisis in the Balkans. His latest book is about that region, "Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History," (St. Martin's Press) a political travel book that took him through southern Austria and Croatia, Old Serbia and Albania, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece. One reviewer wrote of the book, it "provides a road map through the centuries-old ethnic hatreds and anti-Semitism that continue to erupt in Eastern Europe."
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