balkanization

1. Division of a place or country into several small political units, often unfriendly to one another. The term balkanization comes from the name of the Balkan Peninsula , which was divided into several small nations in the early twentieth century.

Example Sentences

What the Malkins of the world have sought to create is rather a kind of intellectual Balkanization.

From The Daily Beast

This brings us to "malkinization"'s other virtue as a term: the allusion to "Balkanization".

From The Daily Beast