Indeed, neighbourly relations on border controls and sea safety have survived Russia's freeze on military contacts with NATO.
We were curious about how Sterling turned an extremely complicated and broad topic transnational relations and border disputes into a physical (and entertaining) piece of art.
In response, the Navajo Nation recently formed its own Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission and is moving forward to document these crimes, and to foster greater public awareness and improved relations with border towns.
Inkster adds: "A further consideration in relation to border security is that a Brexit would very likely trigger another Scottish-independence referendum, which may well succeed.
"Because of its location, the choice was made to go ahead and open there, even though they're not open on Sunday," said Ann Dinkley, director of public relations for Borders, which has two of its bookstores in Bergen County.
All major tribes in Iraq have related branches in Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the other gulf states and Turkey, although under Koranic prescriptions loyalty to the national leader trumps relations across borders.
China's main approach to controlling the smoldering separatist movement in Xinjiang, in addition to keeping a chokehold internally, has been to cultivate relations with bordering Muslim states like Kazakhstan, offering commerce and friendship in return for their control over Chinese Uighur exiles.
Now along with with diplomatic relations, cross-border energy deals and the routing of pipelines could be at stake, Global Insight analyst James Auger told Forbes.com.
It is no longer self-evident that nation-states can be described as "self-sufficient schemes of cooperation for all the essential purposes of human life" in the context of intense deterritorialization and the spread and intensification of social relations across borders.
Selection on INC-regions in relation to bordering genes is an important theoretical caveat when using INC-regions as phylogenetic markers.
