bicommunalism

Belgium—homeland of Bruegel and other leading lights of European culture and humanism; a country that had been in the forefront of European political reform and cultural achievement in the sixteenth century; a masterpiece of bicommunalism that would twice be the victim of aggression in the first half of the twentieth century; host to the headquarters of the European Union into the twenty-first century—earned special opprobrium for its record as a colonizer in the nineteenth.

The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008