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Some 400,000 refugees – many of them Sunni Muslims, including fugitive rebels – have poured over the border from Syria, exacerbating sectarian tensions and threatening to disrupt Lebanon’s delicate social and political balance.
Under NAFTA, US firms are flocking across the 2,000-mile Mexican border in order to set up operations in Mexico to benefit from lower wage levels, and hence lower production costs.
Their gut-level response is to build fences and walls, as long and as tall as possible, whether on the border between Mexico and the US, on Israel’s border with Egypt, or on Hungary’s border with Serbia (or even with fellow EU member Croatia).
Border control cannot be the only – or even the primary – objective.
But, as its Himalayan border standoff with India’s military continues, the limits of this approach are becoming increasingly apparent.
China’s defense ministry has threatened to teach India a “bitter lesson,” vowing that any conflict would inflict “greater losses” than the Sino-Indian War of 1962, when China invaded India during a Himalayan border dispute and inflicted major damage within a few weeks.
Despite China’s overall military superiority, it is scarcely in a position to defeat India decisively in a Himalayan war, given India’s fortified defenses along the border.
Already, Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj has tacitly warned of economic sanctions if China, which is running an annual trade surplus of nearly $60 billion with India, continues to disturb border peace.
More broadly, as China has declared unconditional Indian troop withdrawal to be a “prerequisite” for ending the standoff, India, facing recurrent Chinese incursions over the last decade, has insisted that border peace is a “prerequisite” for developing bilateral ties.
There are now proposals for a shared eurozone budget and finance minister, and for an EU-level security union to tackle terrorism and strengthen border controls.
The Togo-Ghana border divides the Ewe.
Americans thought the Europeans parochial; they thought the US unduly influenced by its 2000 mile border with Mexico.
Russia is involved in supplying and manning key parts of the two army corps that are occupying Donbas, and the Ukrainian government is right to insist on the restoration of its control of the border as a precondition of constitutional changes.
Its prime minister has visited the country, but without a clear plan of engagement, even though developing western Myanmar would boost the economy of India’s border region.
Because those nations - among the poorest in Africa - have an unresolved border dispute that led to a 1998-2000 war in which tens of thousand died on both sides and hostilities in the area continue, their involvement, by proxy, in the Somali civil war may have grave implications for the entire Horn of Africa.
Today, the Saudis see 24 million Yemenis – hungry, heavily armed, and envious of Saudi wealth – looking across the border.
It also must navigate the question of what to do about the UK’s land border with the Republic of Ireland after Britain withdraws from the EU.
Making matters worse, as May herself declared when she was campaigning for the Remain camp ahead of the referendum, there is no such thing as a virtual border between countries with different tariffs.
If the UK, including Northern Ireland, is out of the customs union, and the Republic of Ireland is still in, there will have to be a hard border.
Yet such a border risks undermining the Good Friday Agreement that has underpinned peace in Northern Ireland for two decades.
And May’s government has proposed no plausible alternative solution for managing the relationship between two different customs regimes without a border.
These two systems operate side by side, but the border that separates them has gradually become more porous, and the open breaches in it have become ever greater.
Unlike colonial states, in which colonizers came from distant metropolises (and only in small numbers) the Palestinian territories are just across the border from Israel.
The Shia are a special case, constituting 75% of the population in the Eastern Province, the Kingdom’s main oil-producing region, and identifying far more strongly with Shia across the border in Iraq than with the Saudi state.
This is just one of six Patriot batteries from three Allied countries – Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States – providing protection for millions of people along Turkey’s southeastern border with Syria.
It was known that Gwadar, which overlooks Gulf shipping lanes and is near the Iran border, would eventually double as a naval base.
If Europe is unable to find a coordinated solution to this problem and enforce a common external border, the Schengen Agreement will collapse and internal borders between the EU member states will reappear.
A century ago, Europe’s soon-to-be-victorious powers, concerned with dividing the region (then part of the Ottoman Empire), drew a “line in the sand” (as the author James Barr called it) stretching from the Mediterranean port of Acre in northern Palestine to Kirkuk in northern Iraq, on the border with Iran.
Soon, it may appear even more isolated to Russians, as Poland and Lithuania enforce the EU's Schengen border rules.
The internal contradictions of Pakistan's volte face are now being exposed as the army's bloody encounters with Al-Qaida become more frequent, casualties mount, and hostile tribal reaction to joint US/Pakistani search-and-destroy operations on the western border increases.
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