The risk of confusion and balkanization is compounded by a relentless proregulatory bias: in integrated product markets, producers must of necessity comply with the law of the most restrictive state.— The Corner
I think the music and visual-arts mediums are both examples of the "balkanization" you speak of, hyper-intensified.— WordPress.com News
Free Press argues that doing so could stifle innovation and lead to "balkanization" of the Web.
"It was a reaction to the typical perception of internationals to the Balkans, to balkanization, and to the wars and the people here," Ranko "The Killer" Milanović-Blank explains.— Foreign Policy In Focus
Let's be clear: Israeli strategic planners such as Oded Yinon have called the balkanization of the entire middle east in order to make way for "Greater Israel".— Dissident Voice
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