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Features
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Border Security and Power Performances
By Jennifer Gustetic
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Borders exist only in as much as there exists a crossing of
people and goods. These borders are physical and psychological lines
that states use to identify the limits of their sovereignty. Any threat
to these borders will inevitably evoke a response from the state.
Similarly, actions of the state can create threats to the border.
Essentially, threats are defined and reinforced by the actions of a
state to control them. For example, because of their negative economic
impacts, immigration and the drug trade have been identified as two security
concerns for the Unites States. Due to their concentration at the
border, these have become defined as border threats. The United States
has inadvertently improved the sophistication of these clandestine
efforts by enforcing policy with military action.
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Disengagement:
Realist Perspectives on Israeli Withdrawal
By Eyal Bar
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In May of 2004, Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon split with
his Likud political party, and called for a unilateral withdrawal from
the Palestinian territory Gaza. This withdraw would include uprooting
of Jewish settlements which expanded in the territories. All 21 Gaza
settlements, along with four Northern West Bank settlements, and
Israeli utility and industrial zones in the areas will go through a
process of transferring ownership to Palestinians. Why had Sharon decided to make such a daring
political maneuver, risking the breakup of his coalition government?
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Race and Ethnicity's Role in the Perception
of the Caribbean
By Tyler Parramore
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From tourists isolated on picturesque beaches
to drug rings based on family and ethnic ties, the Caribbean
is a racially and ethnically segregated area. Over the last century,
outside observers associated the Caribbean
with marginal activity because of the many questionable practices that
occur in the region, ranging from offshore banking to
prostitution. Many of these
perceptions can be caused by the preconceived notions of external
observers. However, Caribbean
peoples’ concessions to ethnically segregate the region perhaps sealed
the fate of its disagreeable characterization. Each of the region’s main industries
(tourism, offshore banking, and drug trafficking) provide evidence of
racial differences contributing to morally questionable, if not
illegal, activity. The isolation
of the different ethnicities acting in the Caribbean
drives many to perceive the region’s people and activities as
unpleasant.
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