balkanization
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- noun
- /ˌbɔl.kə.nəˈzeɪ.ʃən/
- Literature
- The balkanization of the region has made it difficult for countries to cooperate on trade agreements.
- the balkanization of Europe
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Examples
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Like Washington, Tehran opposes Iraq's Balkanization, partly for fear that such fragmentation could incite secessionist movements within Iran's own ethnically rich population.
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The company's balkanization into smaller, competing factions has hindered its overall success.
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Surely the most important task for U.S. foreign policy in the 1990s is to prevent the balkanization of Europe.
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The worst aspect of balkanization is forum shopping.
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No one knows when the United States will reach the point when Balkanization becomes an inevitability.
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Does it portend the beginning of the Balkanization of Europe, east and possibly west?
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The first is the increasing fragmentation of power and balkanization of the political system.
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Competition among NGOs has led to a balkanization of the landscape.
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So what you will have is an increasing balkanization of the Internet, of audiences and of niches.
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Putting together theory, doctrine, and practice yields a clear framework for preventing Balkanization.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
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A strong disagreement that separates people in a group
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Divided into opposing parts within a group
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Dividing something into separate parts, often with a border
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A group, system, or organization loses order and stops working well
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The act of dividing something into parts or groups
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When a group or society breaks into smaller parts and loses shared values
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Small groups inside a larger group compete and disagree, causing conflict
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Dividing something into parts or groups
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Dividing something into separate parts to keep things organized
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6.8
A way of dividing an area into regions for local government or services
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The breaking of a group or society into smaller, competing groups
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A situation where groups are split and do not work together
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Organizing and marking an area as an official region for administration
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Moving people and businesses out of a crowded city area so they spread out
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Dividing a company into parts that do different jobs
A process of dividing something into separate parts to make it easier to manage
Antonyms
How Divided
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- Literature
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word balkanization comes from the Balkans, a region in southeast Europe that was often split into many small, unfriendly states. So balkanization means 'breaking a larger area, group, or market into smaller, separate, and often unfriendly parts'.