balkanization

The term balkanization comes from the name of the Balkan Peninsula, which was divided into several small nations in the early twentieth century.

balkanization 2002

The curious notion that in balkanization, protectionism and parochialism there is strength, flies in the face of history.

The Economy and the Constitution: Getting it Right 1992

Let's be clear: Israeli strategic planners such as Oded Yinon have called the balkanization of the entire middle east in order to make way for "Greater Israel".

Dissident Voice 2009

Feinstein said the intelligence community needs "a strong leader" or else the "balkanization" of the 16 agencies that make it up will continue.

Obama's intelligence nominee says he won't be a 'hood ornament' 2010

Feinstein said the intelligence community needs "a strong leader" or else the "balkanization" of the 16 agencies that make it up will continue.

Obama's intelligence nominee says he won't be a 'hood ornament' 2010

Feinstein said the intelligence community needs "a strong leader" or else the "balkanization" of the 16 agencies that make it up will continue.

Obama's intelligence nominee says he won't be a 'hood ornament' 2010

The sense in which “multiculturalism” deserves to be used as a pejorative is that which entails a kind of balkanization of public norms, with different rules and standards applying to different groups — the sense in which both the citizenry and the individual citizen dissolve into a crazy-quilt of intermediate identities.

Sister Mary Margaret Has Two Mommies 2007

"You could argue that recent immigration is creating a kind of balkanization," Lichter said.

Influx of Immigrants Alters Mating Game | Impact Lab 2007

Algeria's refusal to open its frontier with Morocco and to normalize relations contributed to the danger of a "balkanization" in North

ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

It is like a college mixer where no one mixes-and it is leading, in the view of Troy Duster, a Berkeley sociologist, to the "balkanization" of campus life.

Race On Campus: Failing The Test? 2008