Moreover, the ECB has clearly stated that it will not allow the euro to disintegrate.

The ideal of a unified Europe, though not designed to explode, could well disintegrate nonetheless.

Left to its fate, Syrian society began to disintegrate and reorganize on a sectarian basis.

At that point, the sanctions coalition will most likely disintegrate amid a much broader loss of confidence in US leadership.

Social disintegration is the tendency for society to decline or disintegrate over time, perhaps due to the lapse or breakdown of traditional social support systems.

By not permitting Russia to disintegrate into anarchy or leading it back to authoritarianism, Yeltsin kept the way open for such a leader to one day emerge.

The ideal of a unified Europe, though not designed to explode, could well disintegrate nonetheless. To understand why, it helps to revisit the intellectual origins of the European Union.

If I was always violent towards you or gave you misinformation or made you sad or infected you with deadly germs, you would cut the ties to me, and the network would disintegrate.

The great success story of India, a country that so many learned scholars and journalists assumed would disintegrate, in the '50s and '60s, is that it managed to maintain consensus on how to survive without consensus.

Third, the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) regime, which was on the brink of toppling even before North Korea s actions, is threatening to disintegrate. A number of small and mid sized powers will now ask themselves a radically new question if North Korea can be a nuclear power, why not us?