"The breakdown of geographical borders by technology and communications capabilities is one thing," said Mr. Sarno, who worked in a Manhattan office for many years and said he was thrilled when Cushman opened an office on the Jersey shore.
Throughout the past four years, all stakeholders in the Syrian war, then the war against Isis in Iraq and Syria, have been trying to avoid one outcome – a breakdown of unitary borders that had bound together the centre of the region for much of the past century.
"Volumes of cleared euro IRS between European and US dealers dropped 77% since October 2013 indicating a breakdown of cross-border trading relationships".
Neither man sees a breakdown of the Syrian border as advancing their goals.
"The breakdown of state infrastructure, weakening of borders and proliferation of armed groups during the nearly three-year battle for control of Syria, has transformed the country from a stopover into a major production site," Reuters reported.
The emergence of Kurdistan had been made possible by the breakdown of the arbitrary Middle East borders created in the aftermath of World War I, and so on.
This new global epoch is constituted by a systematic breakdown of economic barriers, of sovereign borders, denationalization and of traditional ideological disagreements involving economics and politics.
"It is the intersection of an eroding state, which sees the breakdown of police and customs and border controls, and a partnership with a committed group of local people that creates the potential for dangers beyond the borders of a particular country," said John Prendergast of the International Crisis Group, a private research group based in Brussels.
Hypertensive retinopathy is the most common ocular sign of hypertension and is a result of the breakdown of the inner blood-retinal border.
