![]() This is an ugly, insulting picture of the people of the region that continues to color the world's perception of Yugoslavia. Seeing what a relentlessly negative picture Kaplan paints of the Balkans I can see how it might psychologically influence someone to steer clear of it. ![]() involvement would be a mistake - stricken as Yugoslavia was with "ancient hatreds". The book was credited with influencing his thinking that U.S. Bill Clinton was famously seen holding a copy of Balkan Ghosts around the time he made his decision not to intervene in the wars. After having finally read it however I can see why people feel this way. ![]() ![]() Being a Robert Kaplan apologist I always took this as a bit of colorful hyperbole. Someone once told me that this book was responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. ![]()
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