Throughout the Western world national security used to be considered by studying foreign frontiers, weighing opposing groups or states, and by measuring industrial and military might.
As an empirical matter, the decay of the domestic-foreign frontier seems highly ambivalent, since it might easily pave the way for the decay of the more attractive attributes of domestic political life: as "foreign" affairs collapse inward onto "domestic" political life, the relative lawlessness of the former potentially makes disturbing inroads onto the latter (Scheuerman 2004).
Adding weight to it, Pakistan's army has increasingly come to blame its failures at the frontier on foreign support for the militants there, chiefly from India and Russia.
Frontier living is frontier living.
At a conference last month, Thomas R. Nides, deputy secretary of state for management and resources, said the Arctic was becoming "a new frontier in our foreign policy".
If global recovery is sustained, African pre-crisis growth rates could return much faster than had earlier seemed likely, triggering renewed foreign investor interest in African frontier markets.
Hitler announced further increases in the strength of German fighting forces and that he would establish a "protectorate" over German minorities in foreign states near the Reich frontiers.
Africa is seen by foreign interests as the last great frontier for investment in large-scale, land-based agriculture and tourism ventures.
Nevertheless, Mr. Sechin can carry out his essential tasks — in particular, representing Mr. Putin in negotiations with foreign oil companies to explore risky frontier territories — just as easily from another position, said Ilya Balabanovsky, the chief energy analyst at Renaissance Capital.
The frontier and coastal authorities forwarded foreign missions to the national capital, where the Ministry of Rites offered them hospitality and arranged for their audiences with the emperor.
Nor, unlike their European counterparts, did American generals and admirals have influence on or involvement in foreign policy; but mainly because in the frontier Army of MacArthur's youth, there was no requirement to do so.
