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It will require a mix of forward-looking policymaking, agile regulatory frameworks, and, above all, effective partnerships across organizational and national
boundaries.
But that is no argument for failing to try again – especially in view of the mounting evidence that liquidity crunches can easily morph into solvency problems that quickly spill over national and regional
boundaries.
"Globalization" of our societies, development of the internet, the spread of liberal economics; all shrink
boundaries
to a point where it is impossible to avoid the American way of life, however devoutly some might wish to do so.
The definitive end of what remains of Yugoslavia may – at least today – pose no danger of war, but the Muslim Sandjak region will now be divided by state boundaries, and Albanian extremists, with their dreams of a Greater Albania, believe their influence in a separate Montenegro will be reinforced with a yes vote on independence.
Now, as then, a change of
boundaries
without the consent of all concerned parties would not only violate international law, but could also lead to violence.
But intervention by modern democratic states goes beyond the
boundaries
of the post-1945 welfare state, which sought to protect individuals against risks linked to old age, family responsibilities, accidents, illness, and the labor market.
You cannot follow the model of a "modern" nation-state cutting across tribal
boundaries
and conventions, and then argue that tribal traditions should be applied to judge the state's human-rights conduct.
These nine
boundaries
include climate change, ozone depletion, ocean acidification, interference in the global nitrogen and phosphorus cycles, land-use change, global freshwater use, biosphere integrity, air pollution, and novel entities (such as organic pollutants, radioactive materials, nanomaterials, and micro-plastics).
Worryingly, our most recent update in January, which confirms the nine
boundaries
and improves their quantifications further, indicates that humanity has already transgressed four: climate change, nitrogen and phosphorus use, biodiversity loss, and land-use change.
Between these planetary and social
boundaries
lies humanity’s safe and just operating space: the limits we must respect if we are to create a world that is ecologically resilient and free of poverty.
Both appeal to moral obligations that stretch far beyond nations’ cultural and physical
boundaries.
To be sure, the
boundaries
of acceptable public discourse have been changing globally: Trump has shown that in the world’s oldest democracy, and people like Swamy exemplify it in the world’s largest.
The fighting has heightened instability in the region;US and European citizens are streaming into Syria to take up jihad; and there is a growing consensus that the post-World War I Middle East
boundaries
are coming undone.
Sometimes leaders need to stretch the
boundaries
of realism to inspire their followers and call forth extra effort, as Winston Churchill did in Great Britain in 1940.
But Daoud’s critics overstepped the
boundaries
of legitimate discussion of ideas, accusing him of “trivializing” racist criticism and dressing it up in “humanistic thought.”
The Middle East suffers from too much intolerance and too little accord about either the
boundaries
between government and society or the role of religion within them.
Chemobyl holds out another message: a radioactivity that ignores national
boundaries
reminds us that we live -- for the first time in history -- in one interconnected civilization wrapping the planet.
The trick is to know how and where to set
boundaries
that concede neither too much nor too little to those with a vested interest, for good reasons or bad, in avoiding scrutiny.
The traditional
boundaries
between labor and capital are becoming blurred.
Moreover, countries that have committed to ratifying the 1997 UN Watercourses Convention – which establishes basic standards for the use and conservation of waters that cross international
boundaries
– must compel their uncommitted counterparts to follow their lead.
Reforms to alter the
boundaries
of Congressional districts to make them more competitive would help alleviate this problem, but few incumbent Congressmen will vote for changes that might increase their risk of defeat.
Al Jazeera has pushed the
boundaries
of information by providing live coverage of major developments in the Arab world and elsewhere.
Soros is what the late historian Isaac Deutscher would call a “non-Jewish Jew” – one who sought ideas, inspiration, and fulfillment beyond the
boundaries
of Jewry, and yet continued to belong to the Jewish tradition.
But they can often frame the choices and broker coalitions to push the existing
boundaries
of European integration.
One such particularity is that many contemporary Arab states were established with relatively new and arbitrary boundaries, and were then occupied and often reconfigured as European colonies.
Trump stated that the US was not taking a position on the final status of Jerusalem, including “the specific
boundaries
of the Israeli sovereignty” there.
Globalization – the breaking down of national
boundaries
and the integration of economies across continents – has resulted in burgeoning demands on governments at the same time that their ability to provide answers has been reduced.
The
boundaries
between the two types of legalities could not remain impenetrable forever.
In a 2009 study, scientists concluded that, by crossing any of nine “planetary boundaries” – climate change, biodiversity loss, disruption of nitrogen and phosphorus cycles, land use, freshwater extraction, ocean acidification, ozone depletion, atmospheric aerosol loading, and chemical pollution – humans would increase the risk of fundamentally changing the Earth system.
Given that these
boundaries
are closely interlinked, allowing trends toward any of them to continue, especially at the current rate, would drive the environment into unknown territory, potentially causing serious damage to the systems that underpin human survival.
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