The country has spent most of its modern history looking beyond its borders: to the restive France on whose defeat the modern German state was founded, to the victorious World War 1 powers that humiliated it, to the eastern "Lebensraum" with which Hitler promised to overcome that humiliation, to the Soviet threat, to its Communist sibling state.
He told reporters in Geneva there was "a real risk of further sectarian violence on a massive scale in Iraq and beyond its borders", and called on the government of Prime Minister Maliki to take a more inclusive approach.
MADRID — Spain, whose judges have aggressively pursued human rights abuse cases far beyond its borders, finds itself on the receiving end of such an inquest, as an Argentine judge seeks to extradite and try Spanish police officials accused of torturing opponents of the regime under Francisco Franco, the dictator who died in 1975.
But few in North Korea have any concept of what is going on beyond its borders.
Like the traditions it has exposed and celebrated, the festival delivers the comforts of familiarity and continuity — something the city, and music fans from beyond its borders, have come to depend on.
Unsurprisingly, in a city formed by superpower clashes beyond its borders, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on America and the subsequent bombing of Afghanistan are adding another twist to Sunday's outcome.
Geographically, in between the above-covered countries, we find tiny Luxembourg with a large impact on dieselization beyond its borders.
And yet China's apparent ambitions beyond its borders seem to belie its insistence on tightly wound statehood.
Japan has long been infamous for what political scientist Dauvergne (1997) has called its "shadow ecologies," the effects of its natural resource consumption on environments beyond its borders.
The drug war in the U.S. and beyond its borders claims more lives every day on an ill-defined battleground, where who's fighting who and why is never entirely clear.
