The balkanization of London government did not prove permanent.
The unifications of Italy and Germany removed the congeries of central European principalities that dated back to the Holy Roman Empire, while the breakup of eastern and southeastern Europe into small and quarreling states (a process that would yield the term balkanization) was not far advanced.
The concept of civic engagement has assumed increasing importance as a means to reverse the balkanization of individual interests and the rapid disintegration of communal life.
What she could see — although, without binoculars, discerning much of anything must have been a challenge — was the result of an informal Balkanization, whereby Ledges users had sorted themselves into peacefully coexisting populations.
"I do not mean to deny the obvious fact that any system that allows for freedom of choice will create some balkanization of opinion," Sunstein writes, in "Republic.com 2.0".
Twenty years ago, he notes, mass immigration to coastal and northern areas, coupled with white flight to the Sun Belt states, "seemed to portend a regional demographic balkanization," which would have "extremely adverse implications for racial integration nationally, not to mention politics".
A Chinese joke making the rounds gives a good sense of the balkanization of the Chinese Internet.
In the case of the intelligence community, it was somewhat more haphazard, although if you go back to 1946, Bill Donovan, the former head of the O.S.S., was warning against the perils of excessive Balkanization even then.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet A Chinese joke making the rounds gives a good sense of the balkanization of the Chinese Internet.
How ironic that it would be a black man — who rose to prominence in 2006 by asserting that "there's no white America or black America but the United States of America" — whose Presidency would ignite the balkanization they warned of.
As this Balkanization was beginning to happen, people realized that there was a need for a group to decide on a common language that would include all the necessary features.
