Kosovar Albanians, along with their ethnic kin in Albania, Macedonia and Serbia, have long dreamed of a "Greater Albania."

Moscow believes that Chechen separatists set up a base there and are supported by their ethnic kin.

Mr. Berisha urged Albanians to help their ethnic kin over the border, saying, "We are one nation."

Like their Christian ethnic kin, Macedonian Muslims speak the Macedonian language as their first language.

The army, however, has become an essentially Serbian force, directed from Belgrade and with its officers and men the ethnic kin of the guerrillas and the Serbian minority.

Rather, they identify with neighbors - Serbia and Croatia - that hold their ethnic kin.

The Serbs' murderous act would indeed be repaid, ten thousandfold, in the blood of his ethnic kin.

"Being a country founded and populated by immigrants, the United States has always contained groups with significant affective and political ties to their national homeland and their ethnic kin throughout the world."

In Albania, there would certainly be strong impulses to help embattled ethnic kin.

Shain cites the situation of Arab-Americans as an example where diaspora members are held accountable and negatively impacted by the polices of foreign ethnic kin: