And Germany is once again at the center of the process of disintegration.

With Germany s reunification, the main impetus behind the integration process was removed, the financial crisis unleashed a process of disintegration.

But not this time, because the financial problems were combined with a process of political disintegration.

The Disintegration of Europe

The potential for regional disintegration and reconstitution a process that can unleash untold violence, as in Syria is greater than ever.

So the entire world quite naturally assumed that any process of EU disintegration would start primarily in the crisis ridden European south (Greece, first and foremost).

Putting the ECB in charge should also help to stop the creeping disintegration process, which is not publicly visible, but is very real nonetheless.

Financial panics subside, and the authorities realize a profit on their intervention. But not this time, because the financial problems were combined with a process of political disintegration.

Syria now is in a state of accelerating disintegration.

They recoiled at the Soviet bloc s disintegration.

But if you watched the Eastern Bloc s disintegration from the ground, you would know that the process was far longer and more complex than most people realize.

No one speaks seriously any more of the danger of disintegration.

We have recently had our own cycles of exuberance and disintegration.

Next month will see the 15th anniversary of the Soviet Union s disintegration.

The political and social dynamics are also working toward disintegration.

Indeed, he recently called the disintegration of the Soviet Union a tragic mistake.

If a gradual process of disintegration eventually makes a eurozone breakup unavoidable, the path chosen by Germany and the ECB large scale financing for the eurozone periphery would destroy the core central banks balance sheets.

Indeed, the gravest current danger to the region is a process of national disintegration emanating from the Syrian civil war, which is threatening to spread not only to Iraq, but also to Lebanon and Jordan.

Unless it is met, the eurozone s financial disintegration will eventually resume.

Not all long term dictatorships, however, end in disintegration and mayhem.

Either of the second two scenarios would increase dramatically the likelihood of Russia s eventual disintegration.

Indeed, it could lead to piecemeal legislation, disintegration, and potentially the breakup of the Union.

And only hard core idealists dismiss altogether the mounting risk of the eurozone s total disintegration.

Following the path of least resistance will lead to the gradual disintegration of the international financial system.

In reality, both remain mostly inward looking and preoccupied with the disintegration of their original culture.

Putting the ECB in charge should also help to stop the creeping disintegration process, which is not publicly visible, but is very real nonetheless. Just ask any of the large international banking groups headquartered in financially stressed eurozone countries.

And Syria s disintegration could further balkanize the Middle East, potentially unleashing new violence.

Its disintegration began when Nicaragua separated from the federation on November 5, 1838.

The Committee recalls that Serbia and Montenegro is undergoing a process of economic and institutional transition and that it is still suffering from the effects of territorial disintegration and armed conflicts throughout the 1990s, which render the full implementation of the Covenant difficult.

What would follow the disintegration of the eurozone and almost certainly with it that of the European Union?

Today, Pakistan, a near failed state on the verge of disintegration, possesses more nuclear warheads than India.

After the Soviet disintegration, even Russia emerged as a credible candidate for democratic reform.

The power of the center is being restored, following its partial disintegration after the end of the Soviet Union.

Looking ahead, as the threat of disintegration looms larger, the need for German leadership will be even greater.

The coup faced wide popular opposition and collapsed in three days, but disintegration of the Union became imminent.

The vulnerability that this implies already has resulted in Sudan s recent disintegration into two states.

Throughout its long history, centrifugal forces have often pushed the country into disarray and disintegration.

Implosion This likelihood of political disintegration, economic collapse, and social disorder may be no higher than that of re equilibration.

Obviously, we also cannot completely rule out the possibility of a subsequent weakening or disintegration of Europe s common political structures.

Fascism's demise was followed by the more gradual disintegration of communism after Stalin's death and Khrushchev's revelations of Stalin's crimes.

But the danger of a fundamental disintegration has increased over time, and today such an outcome cannot be excluded.

Failure to seize this moment would, I believe, lead to the disintegration and eventual collapse of the European Union.

Disintegration and thus the Balkanization of Iraq? Will it really be possible to limit the disaster to Iraq itself?

For Iraq s disintegration would be hard to contain indeed, it could bring about a thorough balkanization of the region.

Putin sees his own crusade to save Russia from disintegration and separatism as similar to Alexander s.