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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
H'm, I didn't think that "Balkanization" suggested a neat and well-defined situation, maybe I have the wrong metaphor.  |
I went over to Wikipedia to see what it had to say about Balkanization, & it seems to me that the core concept is the division of entities into smaller entities. In a sense, increasingly well-defined. In fact, one might say it's a leap from definition to a kind of hyperdefinition. Borders, no pun intended or even existing, seem to be of the essence.
But the interesting thing was a animated gif showing the changes in the Balkan empires/nations from 1796 to 2008.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ba..._1800-2006.gif