2. Verb. (present participle of balkanize) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Balkanizing
1. balkanize [v] - See also: balkanize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Balkanizing
Literary usage of Balkanizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon (1920)
"This amazing creation, which fitted in with the balkanizing craze of the moment,
was the work of a few wire-pullers in which the easy-going inhabitants had ..."
2. An Introduction to World Politics by Herbert Adams Gibbons (1922)
"But all shared the misgiving of Mr. Lloyd George about "balkanizing Europe."
Although the immediate advantage of disrupting the Hapsburg empire was ..."
3. The World and Yugoslavia's Wars by Richard Henry Ullman (1996)
"... “Who Is ‘balkanizing' Whom?” Daedalus, voL 111 (Spring 1994), pp.203—23. 2.
For a discussion of this use of ..."
4. Balkanized Europe: A Study in Political Analysis and Reconstruction by Paul Scott Mowrer (1921)
"To have "Balkanized" Austria- Hungary, it is argued, without at the same
time "balkanizing" Germany, leaves the latter in a singularly favorable condition. ..."
5. What Next in Europe? by Frank Arthur Vanderlip (1922)
"Instead of Europeanizing the Balkans, the treaty of Paris has come dangerously
near balkanizing Central Europe. I found the Magyars inclined to illustrate ..."
6. The Urban Condition: space, community, and self in the contemporary metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"“Many companies,” observed Kenneth Jackson already in the mid-eighties, “are now
balkanizing their accounting departments, data-processing divisions, ..."
7. Marooned in Moscow: The Story of an American Woman Imprisoned in Russia by Marguerite Harrison (1921)
"... which might threaten their colonial possessions and their political supremacy
on that continent, in their policy of balkanizing Russia. ..."
8. Signposts in Cyberspace: The Domain Name System and Internet Navigation by National Research Council (U.S.) (2005)
"... are accessible to a user would depend on which of the multiple roots were
used, these technologists see a multiple-root DNS as balkanizing the Internet. ..."
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