Balkanization

demographic balkanization

Issues that are already hotly contested become even more divisive in the context of social balkanization.

In other words, will the biometric future feature biometric centralization whereby one biometric would dominate multiple applications, or will we see biometric balkanization where multiple biometrics are used for multiple applications?

TV is the mass medium now, and balkanization has hit the newspaper industry.

Evening newscasts speak of a country on the verge of balkanization.