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Since completing his Ph. D. in Modern Balkan and Comparative History at UCLA in December 1990, Alan F. Fogelquist has dedicated full time to research and analysis of the post communist conflicts in former Yugoslavia the former Soviet Union and international policies towards these regions. He has spoken at numerous public forums on the current situation in the Balkans and participated in conferences at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington D. C. and the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California. He has worked as a consultant on War Crimes for Helsinki Watch and provided consultation to members of the United States Senate and United States Congress and the Bosnian Mission to the United Nations. Alan Fogelquist is author of the monograph Handbook of Facts on the Break-up of Yugoslavia, International Policy and the War in Bosnia Hercegovina (Ann Arbor, Michigan: AEIOU Publishing, 1993) as well as several articles for scholarly publications and newspapers. He is currently writing a comparative study of conflicts arising from the breakup of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Dr. Fogelquist has visited Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Kosova, Macedonia and other areas of former Yugoslavia on several occasions. He lived in Sarajevo from 1981 to 1984. He has an excellent knowledge of Bosno-Croatian, Spanish and Portuguese and a good working knowledge of Persian, Russian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Macedonian, and French. Alan Fogelquist is currently a post-doctoral scholar in Modern Balkan and Comparative History at the University of California at Los Angeles, UCLA