Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. Alternative capitalization of Balkanize
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. to divide a territory into small, hostile states.
WordNet 3.0
- v. divide a territory into small, hostile states
Examples
“Thus, if discrimination were to 'balkanize' the Internet and reduce the size of many network communities using various applications by similar amounts, the costs in terms of lost surplus from network externalities could be very large.”
“This is the problem whenever you try to balkanize relationships -- this is why I'm anti-boycott.”
“ If leaks cause U.S. officials to " lock down internally and to balkanize, " they will " cease to be as efficient as they were.”
The Wall Street Journal: Julian Assange, Information Anarchist
“As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange explained to Time magazine last month, his leaks are intended to make "abusive" organizations "lock down internally and to balkanize," and thus "cease to be as efficient as they were.”
The Huffington Post: The Vatican Unsure How To Plug WikiLeak
“The money would go to the Taliban, who in turn would storm in on horse-hoofs and balkanize India.”
The Huffington Post: Sunil Sharan: Enemy in Need can be Friend Indeed
“So the government, corporations, and law enforcement are all in one big conspiracy to entice illegal immigrants to come to the USA, break our laws, rape and kill our citizens, loiter on our corners, abuse our welfare system, support gang activity, and balkanize our country?”
“It was part of a larger scheme to balkanize the Middle East along tribal and religious lines and create an "Arc of Crisis" from Central Asia to the Soviet Union.”
“I believe that people took an unfair advantage of Mobutu's health condition to get rid of him and in the process conceived a sordid plan to weaken the DRC in order to balkanize this large country we all love.”
International Community Not Doing Enough Top Stop Genocide in The D R.Congo
“Besides the Afghan escalation, he's also destabilizing Pakistan to balkanize both countries, weakening them to control the Caspian Sea's oil and gas riches and their energy routes to secured ports for export.”
“And we must resist any efforts to balkanize and split up our country.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘balkanize’.
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Daily We
http://bostonreview.net/BR26.3/sunstein.php
proliferation, bear on, boon, feasible, dissent, salience, deliberate, conspicuous, balkanize, restrained, antecedently, opprobrium and 1 more...
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Words to research
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Alaric's Words
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My fancies, my cudgels.
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Hana's Vocab
ipseism, jape, raphe, mullions and tran..., Olbers' Paradox, Euclidian torus, relativity of sim..., Cerenkov radiation, tachyon, superluminal, hapax legomenon, damascene and 314 more...
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GRE
predilection, inveigle, inveigh, maladroit, peremptory, irreverent, didactic, confound, cogent, canard, factotum, wag and 82 more...
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Winters's Words
endogenous, serendipitous, sundry, incongruous, impudent, imperious, zeitgeist, imbroglio, hermeneutic, immutable, genealogical, labile and 37 more...
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Blazes_Boylan's list
I have a thing for monosyllabic words. They're easy to say and, unlike those sesquipedalian words, you can plug them into a sentence without disrupting the rhythm. I also happen to like two and thr...
sluice, turgid, slough, cromulent, trudge, vacuous, crux, fisticuff, vapid, tepid, latch, micturate and 37 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for balkanize.
brainstem also used (negatively) to describe fragmentation of interests/priorities, etc. that used to be shared:
"Because the politically attentive tend to seek out information consistent with their existing views, Sunstein argued, the Internet threatens to balkanize political attention and discourse."
http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/1/0/6/9/3/p106938_index.html
the above usage seems to be spelled "bulkanize" frequently... not sure if it's just an innocent, random misspelling. Mar 6, 2010