Noun
(historical, chiefly political science) The fragmentation of a geopolitical region into several small states that are often hostile or non-cooperative with each other.
(by extension, informal) Any disintegration or fragmentation process.
Synonym: fragmentation
demographic balkanization
balkanization (countable and uncountable, plural balkanizations)
Alternative letter-case form of Balkanization
Uncontrolled immigration threatens to deconstruct the nation we grew up in and convert America into a conglomeration of peoples with almost nothing in common - not history, heroes, language, culture, faith, or ancestors. Balkanization beckons. Pat Buchanan
Defeat would blot the Confederate States of America from the face of the earth. Confederate victory would destroy the United States and create a precedent for further balkanization of the territory once governed under the Constitution of 1789. James M. McPherson
"Diversity” had come to mean Balkanization. Gregory Benford
After the dissolution of Yugoslavia beginning in June 1991, the term "Balkans" again received a negative meaning, especially in Croatia and Slovenia, even in casual usage (see Balkanization ). Source: Internet