The age of walls
Subtitle: how barriers between nations are changing our world
By: Tim Marshall
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Series: Politics of place -- 3
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781501183904
Subjects: Boundaries; Geopolitics; Walls; World politics; Border security
Description: "Tim Marshall ... analyzes the most urgent and tenacious topics in global politics and international relations by examining the borders, walls, and boundaries that divide countries and their populations. The globe has always been a world of walls, from the Great Wall of China to Hadrian's Wall to the Berlin Wall. But a new age of isolationism and economic nationalism is upon us, visible not just in Trump's obsession with building a wall on the Mexico border or in Britain's Brexit vote but in many other places as well. China has the great Firewall, holding back Western culture. Europe's countries are walling themselves against immigrants, terrorism, and currency issues. South Africa has heavily gated communities, and massive walls or fences separate people in the Middle East, Korea, Sudan, India, and other places around the world. In fact, at least sixty-five countries, more than a third of the world's nation-states, have barriers along their borders. There are many reasons why walls go up, because we are divided in many ways: wealth, race, religion, and politics, to name a few. Understanding what is behind these divisions is essential to understanding much of what's going on in the world today"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: China; title: USA; title: Israel and Palestine; title: The middle east; title: The Indian subcontinent; title: Africa; title: Europe; title: UK.