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Examples of balkanize
balkanize
In my opinion, Laurent Kabila was murdered because he refused to balkanize Congo.
From the scoop.co.nz
The trend is to standardize biographies across Wikipedia, not balkanize them.
From the en.wikipedia.org
De-annexation by cities would balkanize mass transit in Pierce County.
From the thenewstribune.com
They are race baiters who seek to erect an ethnic spoils system that will balkanize America.
From the washingtontimes.com
A maze of stand-alone technologies threatens to balkanize the networked home and sap its potential.
From the businessweek.com
To balkanize Afghanistan would be to create a disaster.
From the theatlantic.com
The foundation funded movement will also further balkanize the region, making it easier to control through division.
From the infowars.com
Or the other is to lock down internally and to balkanize, and as a result, of course, cease to be as efficient as they were.
From the time.com
The latest DHS report is designed to portray anti-government groups as dangerous and potentially violent terrorists and thus scare off and balkanize supporters.
From the infowars.com
- Divide a territory into small, hostile states
- Balkanization, or Balkanisation, is a pejorative geopolitical term, originally used to describe the process of fragmentation or division of a region or state into smaller regions or states that are often hostile or uncooperative with one another.
- (Balkanization) A geopolitical term to describe the fragmentation of a region into several small states that are often hostile or non-cooperative with each other; : Any disintegration process, such as that of the Internet being divided into separate enclaves
- (BALKANIZATION) to divide a group or area into smaller and usually ineffectual entities, typically quarrelsome or contending; also known as "Balkanism"; as to factionalize, splinter, fragment, subdivide, or disintegrate a population or territory. See DIVIDE AND CONQUER.
- (balkanization) A metaphor for the administrative subdivision of U.S. cities into numerous local governments. Also known as metropolitan fragmentation.
