Natural phenomena like tsunamis and cyclones have no respect for national boundaries — in fact, they follow trajectories that seem almost to mock the vanities of nation-states.
In addition, he was influenced by the April 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which demonstrated that radioactive fallout had little respect for national boundaries.
For example, the values of many post-Thatcher Conservatives are predominantly neoliberal, drawn from an ideology that champions the extraction of commercial value from everything and that has little respect for national boundaries.
Kagan's account of America's essential nature ignores long-standing traditions of isolationism, Lincoln's fierce opposition to the Mexican War, because of his respect for sovereign boundaries, and Woodrow Wilson's promotion of the kind of international institution that Kagan discounts.
One of the hallmark characteristics of narcissistic personality disorder is a complete lack of respect for interpersonal boundaries.
Decolonization in both Africa and the former Soviet Union led to many absurdities based on respect for existing boundaries whether drawn up by tipsy District Commissioners in Africa or playful commissars in the Soviet Union following Stalin's.
John Leland argued that the album is "the continuous synthesis that Laswell promised on Herbie Hancock's 'Rockit'", "extended in both length and scope", as it features "a knack for unexpected juxtapositions and no respect for artificial boundaries".
