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balkanization
- 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.
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What the Malkins of the world have sought to create is rather a kind of intellectual Balkanization.
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This brings us to "malkinization"'s other virtue as a term: the allusion to "Balkanization".
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