Border walls
Subtitle: security and the war on terror in the United States, India, and Israel
By: Reece Jones
Publisher: Zed Books; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781848138230; 9781848138247
Subjects: War on Terrorism, 2001-2009; Foreign relations
Description: Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, why are leading democracies like the United States, India, and Israel building massive walls and fences on their borders? Despite predictions of a borderless world through globalization, these three countries alone have built an astonishing combined total of 5,700 kilometers of security barriers. In this groundbreaking work, Reece Jones analyzes how these controversial border security projects were justified in their respective countries, what consequences these physical barriers have on the lives of those living in these newly securitized spaces, and what long-term effects the hardening of political borders will have in these societies and globally. Border Walls is a bold, important intervention that demonstrates that the exclusion and violence necessary to secure the borders of the modern state often undermine the very ideals of freedom and democracy they are meant to protect.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.