{"id":4939,"date":"2019-04-02T09:12:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T07:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=4939"},"modified":"2019-04-02T09:12:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T07:12:51","slug":"borders-conceptual-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=4939","title":{"rendered":"Borders, conceptual states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-47741926\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-family: sans-serif;\"><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4940\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/what-happens-if-Trump-closes-the-border-April-2-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1343\" height=\"1423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/what-happens-if-Trump-closes-the-border-April-2-2019.jpg 1343w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/what-happens-if-Trump-closes-the-border-April-2-2019-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/what-happens-if-Trump-closes-the-border-April-2-2019-768x814.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1343px) 100vw, 1343px\" \/><br \/>\nHe has said there is a &#8222;very good likelihood&#8220; that he will take the action this week.<\/p>\n<p>But what would happen to people, and to trade, if this were to go ahead?<\/p>\n<p>Mexico is the United States&#8216; third-largest trading partner after Canada and China, so the impact would be widespread and immediate.<\/p>\n<p>And the anticipated avocado shortages would just be one part of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faz.net\/aktuell\/politik\/politische-buecher\/umfassendes-problem-16107521.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frankfurter Allgemeine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"atc-TextParagraph\">In diese Zeiten zur\u00fcck reichen nach der Analyse von Decker, Adorf und Horst auch die Urspr\u00fcnge der Krise der amerikanischen Demokratie. Damit wollen sie die Gefahr, die Trump f\u00fcr diese bedeutet, keinesfalls kleinreden. Vielmehr setzen sie die Frage, ob ein Abgleiten der Vereinigten Staaten in den Autoritarismus denkbar sei, auf die Tagesordnung. Auch k\u00f6nne aus demokratischer Perspektive nicht als w\u00fcnschenswert betrachtet werden, dass einige Regierungsmitglieder auf das angenommene Unverm\u00f6gen ihres Pr\u00e4sidenten und damit Vorgesetzten reagierten, indem sie seine Vorgaben missachteten oder gar in Eigenregie ausgearbeitete L\u00f6sungen umsetzten.<\/p>\n<p class=\"atc-TextParagraph\">In diesem Sinne wird Trump von Decker, Adorf und Horst als ein Brand\u00adbeschleuniger der Krise gesehen. Sie betonen jedoch zugleich, dass er nicht der Verursacher der Gef\u00e4hrdungen sei, sondern ihr Symptom. Sie erkennen zum Teil lange zur\u00fcckreichende Fehlentwicklungen in Politik, Kultur und Gesellschaft, die den Aufstieg des politischen Au\u00dfenseiters Trump erm\u00f6glichten. So solle sich auch f\u00fcr den Fall, dass er aus dem Pr\u00e4sidentenamt entfernt w\u00fcrde, niemand der Illusion hingeben, dass damit die schwere Vertrauenskrise der amerikanischen Demokratie auf einen Schlag behoben w\u00e4re. Dazu beurteilen Decker, Adorf und Horst die Fehlentwicklungen als zu schwer und zu zahlreich.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8222;an extreme bid to cut down on illegal migration and drug-smuggling.&#8220; \u2014 how is it the BBC can even think of using phrases like this?<\/p>\n<p>I grew up with discussion of Nazi concentration camps always involving a bewildered and helpless &#8222;how could this happen?&#8220; and asked that myself until visiting Mauthausen last year. The walls, barracks, quarry seen in light of American news and American society brought an answer. It was a strange realization. Zygmunt Bauman&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornellpress.cornell.edu\/book\/?GCOI=80140100404950\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Modernity and the Holocaust<\/a><\/em> asks the more apposite &#8222;how could this not happen?&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: He has said there is a &#8222;very good likelihood&#8220; that he will take the action this week. But what would happen to people, and to trade, if this were to go ahead? Mexico is the United States&#8216; third-largest trading &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=4939\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}