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Economic borders cannot and will not disappear until Russia and Ukraine agree on their territorial borders.
Moreover, military strength alone has done little to safeguard the country’s borders.
The only way to peace and prosperity is to create an open society in which the state plays a less dominant role and borders diminish in importance.
Information may transcend borders, but servers and cables still have physical locations.
But, as a power burdened with too many domestic ills and a chronic sense of insecurity along its vast and dangerously depopulated borders, Russia cannot be interested in a Cold War II, either.
As a consequence, the borders of this Europe may sometimes be fuzzy; they cannot be determined either by glancing at an atlas or by studying the list of EU member states or the countries (Norway, Switzerland, Iceland) that could join the EU any time.
It aspires to join the European Union, and would bring the EU to our three borders, even as we, too, aspire to join one day.
The Caucasus is too small a space for closed borders and explosive conflicts.
Undoubtedly, the US will try to build closer ties with Indonesia through greater military cooperation, because Indonesia borders the region’s key sea lines of communications.
Nonetheless, unless globalization can be slowed down or partly reversed, which is unlikely and undesirable in the long run, the kind of “politics beyond borders” for which Europe is groping will become a global necessity.
After a time of neglect, a time when we – like the rest of Europe – believed that the continent’s borders would never again be changed by force, we are also increasing our defense spending, despite our economy’s precarious state.
In a recent conversation about Syria with a couple of well-known foreign policy experts, one participant suggested that the Middle East’s current borders, drawn in colonial times, cannot last and must be redrawn.
Japan was never formally colonized, but it, too, felt the West’s dominance, at least since the 1850’s, when American ships laden with heavy guns forced the country to open its borders on Western terms.
McCain, Clinton and Obama support “comprehensive reform” — code words for the ying and yang of managing anti-immigrant sentiment here: give Americans some promises of secure borders and they’ll swallow giving the undocumented a path to citizenship.
(No one mentions in this bargain, that the United States has already spent billions to secure ouitsr borders and nonetheless some 500,000 illegal immigrants a year continue to come, but that’s another story.)
The Pakistani journalist Yasser Latif Hamdani has emphasized the imprudence of the British-French approach, which entailed drawing borders that roped in diverse peoples – the consequences of which are starkly apparent in countries like Iraq and Pakistan.
With the forces destabilizing the Middle East unconfined by national borders, India simply cannot risk having the growing Sunni-Shia civil war spread to its population.
The Islamic State’s military triumphs in Iraq and Syria are not only fueling a humanitarian catastrophe; they are also throwing the region’s existing alliances into disarray and even calling into question national borders.
For example, taxes on commerce among India’s states require checkpoints at their borders, with long queues of trucks awaiting clearance.
Some even argue that they never called for limiting immigration, just for “taking control” of our own borders.
No one was saying, “We want to take control of our own borders so that we can have the same number of migrants.”
Under the current system, countries have strong incentives to offer ever-greater tax advantages to companies operating within their borders, even though they stand just as strong a chance of being undercut by another country as companies shift their declared profits from one jurisdiction to another.
The world’s refugee children typically lack passports that would enable them to cross borders more freely.
They know that communications transcend borders, and that a single news story, handled skillfully, can be as damaging to our cause – and as helpful to theirs – as any military attack.
As the 2008 global financial crisis showed, the implications beyond a country’s own borders can be momentous.
If we do not condone redistribution that violates widely shared moral codes at home, why should we accept it just because it involves transactions across political borders?
Their borders were arbitrary and artificial, and none had ever existed in such form.
Their leaders maintained this system – and its borders – as the best available.
The Islamic State, an offshoot of Al Qaeda, probably will not succeed in creating a viable, cross-border entity, but its brutal effort and Islamist ideology certainly suggest that the old borders, and the states delineated by them, are on their way out.
Over the past two centuries, political leaders have become more accountable to constituencies within and outside of their countries’ borders, and voters have become less susceptible to lobbying groups and the media.
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