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Our children will live with the consequences, balkanization, the end of America as we know her.

"This law would encourage the very balkanization I thought everyone was moving against."

On the other hand, there may be benefits to campus Balkanization.

But many experts fear a balkanization of healthy and sick.

It would be designed to discourage local conflicts and head off Balkanization.

Some think that attention to different groups' rights is divisive, productive of social "balkanization."

This term was not the same as Balkanization , a much older word.

"But our aim is to look for positive aspects of Balkanization.

To leave the matter to the states would lead to mayhem, a balkanization of what ought to be standard American rights.

Their competing economic interests were better served by the balkanization of the airport's present design.

The balkanization of Europe's air traffic control system, which is divided between 49 different authorities, may have played a role.

The newly independent nations began a process of Balkanization, with several civil and international wars.

But people should not let all the Balkanization and technical-sounding talk scare them away.

Does the all-but-certain increase in minority members mean a balkanization of city politics?

"The last thing this region needs is further balkanization.

This is a sign not of "balkanization," but of health.

"It was an extraordinary Balkanization of the company under way when I walked in," he said.

The whole thing could mean the Balkanization of American medicine."

What we have is a Balkanization of the Congress.

How can older cities reverse their balkanization into racial and economic enclaves?

"I believe the last thing we need in the Balkans is greater Balkanization," he said.

If this continues, we will see the Balkanization of Iran."

Finally, he felt that only a very strong authority would be able to prevent balkanization, but refused to rule as a dictator himself.

She stated, "we want no more Balkanization of the Balkans."

So in the current political situation, information technology was creating not totalization but balkanization.

Can it be supposed that such a Balkanisation, extended on a world scale, would provide a stable or lasting political system?

The concept of Balkanisation is introduced to split up the country into different parts:

That way, say her critics, lies political balkanisation.

Why we have always to support outsiders ideology or the so called Balkanisation of Somali.

The Balkanisation of the British Isles will not be pretty.

I worry about the potential Balkanisation of Europe.

Balkanisation leads inexorably to atomisation, and is no solution.

We are not seeing a process of balkanisation whereby one single country fragments into vying factions based on ethnicity.

However, Kosovo reveals the true face of a policy aimed at the balkanisation of Europe.

The Arc is also sometimes to referred to as balkanisation in a modern, Asia-Pacific context.

I fear a political Balkanisation.'

Balkanisation, then?

Later, the feared possible impact of British withdrawal was the Balkanisation of Northern Ireland.

Above all, the disintegration and balkanisation of South-East Asia can surely not be Europe' s goal.

The closely contested presidential election was characterised by unrealistic promises, fragmentation, balkanisation, media hype and strong expressions of ethnic nationalism.

That's just one more reason that the government has got to start acting responsibly on the problem of immigration and the Balkanisation of large parts of this country.

And if the French and British had granted 'self-determination'...it is possible that the result would have been the balkanisation of the area.

'Balkanisation and slaughter abroad and the free market feeding off the bones, a poverty-line economy and gladiatorial contests on the roads at home.

The hazards are internal; as the pressure-cooker microcosm of the nation's Balkanisation, it is impossible to court, for instance, the Jewish vote without offending blacks, and vice-versa.

In words aimed at the US president, Bill Clinton, he said: 'The Balkanisation of the region is coming if there is to be no peaceful settlement.

The other option, that of regional devolution - a sort of balkanisation of England - was tried by Labour and shot down in the North-East referendum.

Pictish, Middle Irish and Old Norse would certainly have been spoken and Woolf (2007) suggests that a significant degree of linguistic balkanisation took place.

In the light of events in Côte d'Ivoire, there is a genuine risk of balkanisation and it is feared that the whole region will slide into chaos.

I have not forgotten this 'Balkanisation' of Lebanese territory, which was as destructive as the 'Lebanonisation' of the former Yugoslavia was later to be.