Instead, Kaplan offers the reader a diverse collection of observations, ruminations, narrations and occasional incriminations clustered around a travelogue through cities on or near the eponymous sea. After all, what does the poetry of Ezra Pound have to do with the current position of the West and Russia in Montenegro?” A good question - although one left unanswered. Kaplan, the author of several books on international affairs, tells it, “Adriatic” is “not military strategy, political science, original archival history, conventional long-form journalism, traditional travel writing, memoir or literary criticism. One can learn much from this idiosyncratic book, although only a little about the Adriatic. ADRIATIC: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age, by Robert D.
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