balkanize, v. To break up (as a region or group) into smaller and often hostile units. Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online
sedition, n. An agreement, communication or other preliminary activity aimed at inciting treason or some lesser commotion against public authority. Black’s Law Dictionary 7th Ed.
latin: seditio, literally, separation, from sed apart + itio act of going, from ire to go
“Anyone who doubts that it's possible to bring about the dismemberment of a super power state using internal forces in this day and age, ought to sit down and have a long talk with a guy named Mikhail Gorbechev… These megastates are not immutable. They can be taken apart. They can be destroyed. But first we have to decide that we can do it, and that we will do it.” Ward Churchill in Struggle for the Land on pages 422 and 423. “Native North America is struggling to break free of the colonialist, industrialist, militarist nation-state domination in which it is now engulfed. It is fighting to ‘secede’ from the U.S. and Canada.” Winona LaDuke, former vice presidential candidate and university educator in Struggle for the Land on page 5.