Editing Balkanization (section)

==In the Levant==
During the 1980s, the Lebanese academic and writer [[Georges Corm]] used the term ''balkanization'' to describe attempts by supporters of Israel to create [[buffer state]]s based on ethnic backgrounds in the [[Levant]] to protect Israeli sovereignty.<ref>{{cite news|author-first=Georges |author-last=Corm |title=La balkanisation du Proche-Orient |language=fr |trans-title=The balkanization of the Middle East |url=https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/1983/01/CORM/37130 |newspaper=Le Monde diplomatique |date=January 1983 |pages=2–3 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190222152215/https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/1983/01/CORM/37130 |archive-date=22 February 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2013 the French journalist [[Bernard Guetta]] writing in the ''[[Libération]]'' newspaper applied the term to:

*[[Lebanon]]'s political division between [[Muslims]], Christians and [[Druze]].<ref name=guet>{{cite news |author-last1=Guetta |author-first1=Bernard |title=La balkanisation du Proche-Orient |trans-title=The balkanization of the Middle East |url=https://www.liberation.fr/planete/2013/05/28/la-balkanisation-du-proche-orient_906392 |website=Libération.fr |access-date=28 September 2019 |language=fr |date=28 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928195751/https://www.liberation.fr/planete/2013/05/28/la-balkanisation-du-proche-orient_906392 |archive-date=28 September 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*The [[Syrian Civil War]].<ref name=guet/>