Robert W. Pringle
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LOCATION: Lexington, KY, United States
Adjunct professor, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia. Former intelligence analyst, Directorate of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency.
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Balkanization, division of a multinational state into smaller ethnically homogeneous entities. The term also is used to refer to ethnic conflict within multiethnic states. It was coined at the end of World War I to describe the ethnic and political fragmentation that followed the breakup of the…
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