Suchergebnisse

Every day, large numbers of people cross borders that separate one political jurisdiction from another. Most do so legally, though many break the law in changing jurisdictions. Many more do not cross borders, because they dare not break the law or cannot cross undetected-sometimes because they are denied permission to leave one jurisdiction, and other times because they are prohibited from entering another. Some cross borders fully aware that they are leaving one defined space and entering another, while others have no idea that anything has changed or that the imaginary lines that define distinct regions exist even in the imagination. Borders-political boundaries-are such variable things that encounters with them can be very different experiences. Entering Luxemburg from Belgium is almost always a nonevent. Entering the United States from Mexico can be very eventful. The purpose of this essay to ask why this is so, and whether it must be so. Why must some borders be so difficult to cross? Why can't the move from Mexico to the United States always be as easy as moving from Belgium to Luxemburg? Why should some people be able to move so freely and others not? Another way to put this is to ask: Why can't all borders be open? The point of this essay is to address this question, both as a conceptual question and as a theoretical-normative-question. Its concern is the movement of people-not of goods or money-across political boundaries. In the end, it tries to offer a defense of open borders. But any such defense must rest on some account of what "open borders" means, and how such a thing is possible. Thus the aim of the essay is to offer an account of the theory and practice of open borders.

Crisis management research has largely ignored one of the most pressing challenges political leaders are confronted with in the wake of a large-scale extreme event: how to cope with what is commonly called the blame game. In this article, we provide a heuristic to help understand political leader responses to blame in the aftermath of crises, emphasizing the crucial role of their leadership style on the political management of Inquiries. After integrating theoretical and empirical findings on crisis management and political leadership styles, we illustrate our heuristic by applying it to the Bush administration's response to Hurrican Katrina in 2005. We conclude by offering suggestions for further research on the underdeveloped subject of the blame management challenges faced by political leaders in the wake of acute crisis episodes.

Foreign Policy presents a unique portrait of 2010's global marketplace of ideas and the thinkers who make them. Adapted from the source document.