With Turkey threatening to rip up a refugee deal with the EU that relocated the refugees crisis within its borders, alarm bells are ringing in university faculties around the Balkans.
This open desire to change Bosnia's borders alarms the Muslim and Croat inhabitants of Bosnia, many of whom suffered at the hands of Serbian forces during the war.
Curiosity bordering on alarm is the only way to describe how people receive this information.
PUZZLEMENT among economists, bordering on alarm, over the economy's seeming inability to create jobs and rare manna for Democratic presidential hopefuls.
But in spite of randomized, controlled trials confirming its efficacy, few doctors prescribe it, and patients who try it face the same "curiosity bordering on alarm" that Vogelstein describes.
Closer by, a rich group of Hong Kong property developers, including New World and Cheung Kong, may put computer servers in their tower blocks to deliver on-demand films via existing television cables.This multimedia scramble across the border is alarming China.
Yet among some veteran humanitarian relief workers, the televised images of American benevolence, broadcast on the eve of the bombing campaign against the Taliban, were cause for disquiet bordering on alarm.
White House officials have acknowledged that the administration erred in initially stressing guest worker provisions more than border enforcement, alarming conservative House members and stepping squarely into the abyss separating the moderates and conservatives of his party.
So the sight of Russian troops in Crimea and massed near Ukraine's border has alarmed many Latvians.
The presence of 30,000 or so American GIs in the South moving up to China's borders obviously alarms the PLA, while Seoul wonders what it would do with the DPRK's 1.2m-man army and the possibility of "last ditch" attacks on its territory.
