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Considering the difficulty of analyzing the tremendously long Canada-US borderline in an exhaustive way, I chose to concentrate on both of its extremities, basing field work on the Quebec-Vermont region, as well as in the British Columbia-Washington State Cascadia. These boundary segments have both been traced along latitudinal parallels (the 45th in the east and the 49th in the Pacific region); they are also among the more densely populated borderlands (with notable differences, though, between the urban outskirts of Vancouver and the rural eastern lands). In regions marked by a notable north-south asymmetry, we have concentrated on Canadian border "artscapes.". Adapted from the source document.

A new authoritarian order is taking shape, this time within rather than against the capitalist world order. Globalization, in short, is shedding its liberal cloak. Post–Cold War triumphalism was premature in the funeral it staged for the Second World, defined in terms of its autocracy rather than communism. The capitalist character of the new Second World lulls Western globalists into moral as well as geopolitical (hence moral realist) indifference. For many in high places, it is still inconceivable that global capitalism could be a house divided. "Globalization" turns out to be anything but the steadfast ally of democratization it purports to be. It is in fact the greatest gift to a new breed of authoritarian capitalists. The case of China alone is enough to dispel the notion that capitalism and democracy are two sides of the same globalist coin. But Sino-globalization is only unique in that it makes no pretense about its authoritarian ends and means. To revitalize democratization as a global force, a radically different mode of globalization will have to be fostered. We call this the Global Third Way, but what it amounts to is People Power without borders.

In February and March 2011, Tunisians were managing the fallout from their own revolution. Governmental institutions were on hold, and security and policing were absent in south-eastern Tunisia, the area closest to Libya's western border. Informal but highly effective community efforts in Tunisia, outside the auspices of national and international institutions, played a crucial role in ensuring the safe passage and accommodation of hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Libya. Initially, as groups of migrant workers crossed into Tunisia en route to the airport on the Tunisian island of Djerba, Tunisian villagers organised cooking crews, with men cooking together in community centres and women cooking separately in their homes. They took this food to the airport as third-country nationals waited for flights home paid for by the international community. No sooner had these migrant workers left than Libyan families began streaming across the border in search of a safe haven and ended up staying for five to eight months. Adapted from the source document.