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Balkanization
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Balkanization
The subdivision of a department in a hospital or academic institution—e.g., internal medicine—into specialized fields—e.g., cardiology, dermatology, nephrology, neurology, et al—each having its own separate administration, staff, and ‘turf’


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Our continent's balkanisation has limited us to achieve the economies of scale we need to accelerate the march of our development.
Zardari's spokesman Farhatullah Babar quoted him, as saying that the conspirators had planned to postpone elections indefinitely and to provoke the PPP workers to take to the streets on that fateful day to hasten the process of balkanisation.
Thus was born Nkrumah's life-long passion against balkanisation and for African Union which he pursued single-mindedly until the end of his life (Legum, pp.
 
 
 
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