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Transnational terrorism can only be confronted by close civilian cooperation such as intelligence sharing, police work across borders, and tracing financial flows.
Even in Japan, which has largely closed its borders to migrants, the need to find ways to cope with rapid population aging has lately been stimulating discussion of the issue.
The Coming Wave of Climate DisplacementJOHANNESBURG – Governments around the world are engaged in a series of talks that could fundamentally alter how the movement of people across borders is managed.
And, in fact, when I led the Israeli negotiating team almost two decades ago, both sides accepted the idea of Jerusalem being partitioned, albeit with flexible borders, along ethnic lines.
In May, Obama publicly stated that a return to negotiations on the basis of the pre-1967 borders is essential.
Doing Business – the brainchild of, among others, my Harvard colleague Andrei Shleifer and Simeon Djankov, a World Bank staffer who later became Bulgaria’s finance minister – measures such indicators as the time and cost required to register a business, pay taxes, trade across borders, obtain a loan, get a construction license, or enforce a contract.
But states remain extremely sensitive about their borders’ inviolability.
The old Middle East arose from the borders and political identities created by the European powers after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1918.
The emergence of the new Middle East may present an opportunity to establish a regional order that reflects the legitimate interests of all the actors involved, provides secure borders, and replaces hegemonic aspirations with transparency and cooperation.
But, while a borderless world remains to be realized, the purpose of political borders has changed in the era of globalization.
Historically, most political borders were defensive lines – places where one country’s army prevented the movement of another country’s army.
After the creation of the United Nations, which requires that all member states respect all other members’ sovereignty and territorial integrity, borders came to separate different legal, economic, and political systems.
People in poor or repressive societies, who are increasingly aware that people elsewhere live much more privileged lives, are encouraged to grasp the new economic and social opportunities of globalization – but only as long as they remain within the borders in which they were born.
Without addressing the question of its final borders, however, Serbia has no prospect of joining the EU.
The government of Bangladesh has demonstrated extraordinary generosity in responding to the crisis, providing land, keeping borders open, and helping to build new settlements.
Another would combine asylum policy, border protection, and cooperation in police and judicial affairs; this area could retain control-free internal borders, which is increasingly difficult between countries with widely differing asylum policies.
In 1992-2002, only 4% of the total EU population moved across borders either to work or to retire.
For nationalists, it is a threat, undermining British sovereignty and control over the country’s borders.
Globalization and modern technology now enables social movements to transcend borders as rapidly as ideas can.
On top of all this, we face a new generation of threats, unlike any in history, which spill across borders and have global reach.
Officials who promise – or imply – that they can keep this pandemic from their borders, or stop it once it has arrived, are setting themselves up for public outrage later.
Policymakers must make it easier to move goods across borders, by improving connectivity between countries and reducing bureaucratic hurdles and administrative costs.
Capital and know-how flows across borders, so traditional bilateral trade flows have been replaced by a complex web of international commercial relations.
In addition to poverty, backwardness, repression, rapid population growth, religious and ethnic hatred, and stateless peoples (such as the Kurds and the Palestinians), the region has unstable borders.
Checks at the borders of six countries within the Schengen Area have been reinstituted, at least temporarily.
But it can set an example, both within its own borders and beyond.
Khashoggi’s disappearance is further evidence of how little regard today’s authoritarians have for national borders when it comes to silencing their detractors.
The question is whether autocrats’ contempt for borders or sovereignty in silencing opponents is worth the cost.
The region is also likely to face intensifying contests over national identities as well, and perhaps even the redrawing of borders – processes that will trigger further confrontations.
The West must not succumb to illusions about redrawing borders or shaping new countries; such efforts will yield only disaster.
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