Balkanization refers to the Eurasian barbarian tribes flooding into the Balkan Peninsula and settling in the Byzantine Empire between the sixth and tenth centuries C.E.. Since then, no land has had so many endemic wars over the shifting borders, fratricidal murders, unimaginable tortures, ethnic and personal rivalries, revenge, greed, corruption and intrigue, loyalty and betrayal, and treason among the nation’s leaders.
The ROOTS OF BALKANIZATION reminds the readers that those barbarian roots have spread out from the Balkan Peninsula into Western Europe, and now into the United States of America. The barbarian invasions were the reason why the Roman and Byzantine empires collapsed.
This is not a dry scholarly book, because it involves the reader as a part of the complicated and amazing reality of balkanization then, and now in our modern time. In the “Epilog,” it shows why those roots must be eliminated, and then balkanization will not be revived.