The Foreign Service Journal, October 2007

O C T O B E R 2 0 0 7 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 13 e often forget that the United States has many borders with the rest of the world, but only a handful of them are geographic. There are stock exchanges and reserve banks, borders for investment and finance. There are Internet service providers, media conglomerates and university networks, all borders for informa- tion exchanges. And there are multinational corporations, nongovernmental organizations and international entities that may be headquartered in one city or country but reach out across many. F O C U S O N T H E U . S . B O R D E R S B RIDGES , B ARRIERS OR B OTH ? T HE U.S. B ORDERS L IKE S IAMESE TRIPLETS , THE U.S., C ANADA AND M EXICO HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT FATE HAS LINKED THEIR VITAL ORGANS . B Y L ESLIE B ASSETT W Josh Dorman