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For the past ten years, the greatest practical barrier to peace has been Israel’s failure to carry out any true withdrawal to its 1967 borders, owing to the political weight of hundreds of thousands of settlers in the West Bank and the religious and secular communities that support them.
Then, after Hamas won, the US and Israel immediately orchestrated a cutoff of finances to the newly elected government, including even Israel’s transfer of Palestine’s own customs revenues, which Israel collects as the occupying authority in control of the borders.
Although Israel formally withdrew from Gaza, its complete control over the borders, infrastructure, transport, and taxation, together with its regular military incursions in response to shelling from Gaza and its killings and capture of senior Hamas officials, left Palestinians there desperate.
With Western economic policy prescriptions widely seen as having failed in Russia; with NATO expanding near to the country's borders and old allies like Serbia bombed; with America seen as wanting to weaken Russia even more, breaking it up into pieces and controlling the oil-rich Caspian basin, anti-western sentiments are on the rise.
Eventually Austria and France sealed their own borders, setting the stage for the League to capitalize on public anger over immigration.
Reconciling with Sykes-PicotNEW YORK – This month marks the centenary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the secret British-French accord that launched a decade-long series of adjustments to the borders of the post-Ottoman Middle East.
That interpretation, however, borders on caricature.
To be sure, many of the Sykes-Picot borders reflected deals cut in Europe rather than local demographic or historical realities.
But that hardly makes the Middle East unique: Most borders around the world owe their legacy less to thoughtful design or popular choice than to some mixture of violence, ambition, geography, and chance.
But attempting to reunify the countries that appear on the map – and to make the borders between them matter – would be folly.
But no level of effort will alter the region’s basic reality: borders that count for little and governments that count for only a little more.
Giving Bangladesh legal rights to territory within its own borders is the least India can do to express its gratitude.
These initiatives reflect not only China’s voracious drive for natural resources and new trade routes, but also Myanmar’s own plans to create a “mini-Singapore” within its borders.
The US views Syria mainly through the lens of Iran, seeking to depose Assad in order to deprive Iran’s leaders of an important ally in the region, one that borders Israel.
Hungary played a special role in the collapse of Communism, accelerating the process by opening its borders for East German refugees.
If our faith is strong enough, we can survive this crisis without destroying what we have built together by opening our borders, destroying the Wall, unifying Germany, and completing our democratic transitions.
China’s territorial claims on Russia are often noted in Chinese grade school geography textbooks, which include a number of Russian Far Eastern regions within China’s borders.
According to Chinese theorists, the “vital space” of great powers extends far beyond a state’s borders, whereas the “vital space” of weak countries is limited to strategic boundaries that do not always correspond to the borders of their national territory.
No nation threatens China’s land borders.
The only way we can catch up and restore growth and dynamism is by looking outside our borders for talent.
The revolution in transport and communications, we hear, has vaporized borders and shrunk the world.
Second, there are cosmopolitan ethicists who decry the artificiality of national borders.
Infectious diseases have no borders, and as African countries deepen their trade ties and intra-Africa migration grows, the threat of regional pandemics will only increase.
Shuttered factories serve as highly visible, totemic warnings against open borders.
PARIS – France no longer claims center stage in world history, but it remains influential beyond its national borders.
And, by pushing NATO as far as the Russian borders, the West has hardly been sensitive to Russian security concerns.
In the last two years, conflicts have spilled over national borders, threatening global security.
With the latest great-power interventions by the US and Russia, many are reminded of the 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement between Great Britain and France to draw new national borders in the region and divide it into spheres of influence.
The region does not need new borders and new protectorates, but rather better states, built to be resilient against ethnic divisions and less vulnerable to external influence.
Instead, police national and EU borders to stop illegal migrants.
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