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183 World Affs. 4 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/wrldaf183 and id is 1 raw text is: NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: Brexit, Borders, and Burden Sharing Welcome to the first issue of World Affairs in our 183rd volume and the launch of our newly designed cover image! This issue comprises outstanding articles and commentaries on international ethics, borders, and immigration (Camacho Beltrin); China, the United States, and Taiwanese reunification (Gries and Wang); Germany's position and prospects in a precarious European Union (Wood); a potential deepen- ing of the partnership between Germany and the Ukraine (Umland); and two extremely useful book reviews spanning political science and international relations (Pelizzo). All the pieces in this issue have been chosen for their exceptional insights into current affairs and our interpretations of them. However, one is especially timely, given the current political backdrop in world affairs, and is worth commenting on at some length here. I write this editorial on the eve of Britain's departure from the European Union (EU) after 47 years of membership and a narrow (52-48 percent) win for the Brexiteers in the 2016 referendum. It is a departure that many in Britain will relish, while many others continue to lament sorely. Of the manifold issues determining the referendum outcome, national sovereignty over British money, laws, and borders, and deep anxieties over immigration stand out. Camacho Beltrin (2020) does not dwell on Brexit. But his article in this issue theoretically connects contemporary questions of sovereignty, borders, immigration, and the mutual obligations that regional integra- tion requires in a way that can help us understand why Brexit happened and what is now at stake. It also speaks to Euroskepticism elsewhere in the region (see Balestrini 2019; Wood 2020) and the wider backlash against global interdependency found in fierce isolationism elsewhere (see Magcamit 2017; Pasetti 2019). Camacho does not argue per se for more inclusion (or more exclu- sion), but he does expose that liberal theorists take for granted, or 4 WORLD AFFAIRS

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