William Pfaff, in The

Ethnic Nations
New Yorker (Aug. 10, 1992), 20 West 43rd St., New York, N.Y. 10036.
The brutal Serbian exercise in "ethnic cleans- rope and the former Soviet Union since the col- ing" in what was Yugoslavia is only the most lapse of communism. At the root of these con- extreme manifestation of the ethnic conflicts flicts, historian-journalist Pfaff argues, is a that have broken out throughout Eastern Eu- concept of nationality radically different from
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