War redrew borders and reshaped economies, too.
Working together, we were able to avoid redrawing borders and preserved mutual trust.
He called for redrawing borders and compensating Palestinians and their descendants for homes they left in what is now Israel.
What if the UK had become ensnared in the tangle of conflicts bloodily redrawing borders across the region, conflicts that may have decades or more left to run?
Even in recent years when there has been little serious discussion about redrawing borders, Islamabad has been repeatedly angered by Karzai's attempts to present himself as a leader of Pakistani Pashtuns, the ethnic group that predominates in Afghanistan.
That dream failing — and that it would fail became clear almost at once, since Slovenia, the country's wealthiest republic, and the farthest geographically from Serbia, was determined to secede — Milosevic undertook to create his Greater Serbia, effectively redrawing borders by force.
None of those involved Mr Olmert, Mr Abbas, moderate Arab leaders, George Bush and even Mr Blair seems likely yet to have the will or the courage to tackle the explosive issues (the division of Jerusalem, the removal of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, redrawing borders or addressing the refugee question) that have prevented a lasting peace before.
Other separatist regions in Africa, and there are many of them — the Ogaden in Ethiopia Western Saharaa; the Cabinda enclave of Angola and the breakaway region of Somaliland, to name a few — may be encouraged to push harder for independence now that the African Union and Western powers have made an exception to their longstanding distaste for redrawing borders.
Before the year was out Hitler put an end to that, shifting regional alliances, redrawing borders and chopping up states.
