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This is not only a question of territory, borders, and oil, but also one that concerns the domestic balance of power.
Moreover, Kurdish independence could encourage demands for autonomy in the Sunni-majority provinces bordering Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia – a third region where Syria’s civil war is blurring international borders.
Rather than pondering or devising new borders, regional and external powers need to focus their efforts on holding Syria together.
The French, as Fromkin reminds us, “shrank Syria, so that they could control it,” rewarding their “Christian allies by swelling the borders of Mount Lebanon with the Bekaa valley, the Mediterranean ports of Tyre, Sidon, Beirut and Tripoli, and…land…north of Palestine.
Trade agreements are time-consuming to negotiate and often narrow in scope, and the EU’s common commercial policy and the 500 million consumers living within its borders give it strong bargaining power.
The North Koreans have violated their agreements, knowing that China, the country with the greatest potential leverage, is most concerned about regime collapse in North Korea, and thus the threat of chaos on its borders.
bombers from all over the Arab world crossed into the country through the porous Syrian and Jordanian borders.
Regional governments may not have openly supported the insurgents, but they clearly avoided cracking down on the jihadist groups operating within their borders.
Frightened governments in the region realized that the type of violence occurring almost daily in Iraq was starting to spill across the country’s borders.
Global corporations have disproportionate power because they can operate across national borders, which means that no single local or national government can effectively regulate them.
But South Africa’s aspiration to play a dynamic role beyond its borders is proving increasingly difficult, primarily because the regional environment – indeed, the continental environment – is not hospitable, defying the best efforts of Mbeki’s government to produce meaningful and sustained political and economic change.
Similarly, though China remains fundamentally dissatisfied with its southern land borders and its sea borders to the east and southeast, its current leaders fear that isolation would result from an assertive and aggressive foreign policy.
Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall came down, triggering a seismic shift that moved the borders of the old Federal Republic and of Western Europe as a whole, hundreds of miles to the east.
As a co-founder of Doctors Without Borders, he stated that “we were establishing the moral right to interfere inside someone else’s country.”
In fact, Lardy continues, “China probably ranks second globally in the magnitude of licensing fees paid for technology used within national borders.”
Given China’s systemic importance to the global economy, instability there could pose major risks far beyond its borders.
In other words, the EU must protect those who face imminent danger if returned to their home country, not everyone arriving at its borders.
No amount of messaging and incentives will work if the borders are not secure or immigration rules are not being applied effectively.
The power of Putin’s propaganda can be seen in the way it resonates far beyond Russia’s borders.
To lend credibility to its bid to host the SKA, in 2006 South Africa’s government committed $250 million to build an array of radio dishes within its own borders as a precursor to the SKA.
The other one is supported by countries that want to protect their borders.”
On the other hand, political spillovers are strong and waves of change regularly cross borders, reaching the entire continent.
Moreover, the asylum battle that Merkel has courageously fought is being lost: two years after claiming that Germany was strong enough to open its borders, she suffered a severe electoral setback, followed by tensions within her coalition and retreat on the European front.
Generals, diplomats, national-security officials, and development professionals are approaching a consensus in favor of a no-fly “safe zone” along one of Syria’s borders.
In the Arab world, there is currently no dominant power able to project stability beyond its own national borders.
To their eternal credit, the Kurds have defended against all odds the standards – respect for borders, for the rule of law, and for the fundamental human rights of all – that underpin stability, and that tyrants from Saddam Hussein to Bashar al-Assad have flouted.
So far, we have liberalized national markets on the assumption that private companies would merge and integrate across borders.
In drawing Africa's internal borders, imperialists ignored tribal differences, leaving some densely populated countries, such as Nigeria, without a dominant tribe or splitting famously cohesive tribes, such as the Ewe, between two countries (Ghana and Togo).
All of their borders are works of European fiction, attempts to impose a monolithic image on areas honeycombed with diversity.
This is particularly true for Iran, which is incapable of projecting conventional military power beyond its borders.
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