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Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India and Israel [Paperback]

Reece Jones (Author)

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Publication Date: 12 July 2012 | ISBN-10: 1848138237 | ISBN-13: 978-1848138230 | Edition: 1

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.

#outer_postBodyPS { display: none; } #psGradient { display: none; } #psPlaceHolder { display: none; } #psExpand { display: none; } 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.

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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd; 1 edition (12 July 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1848138237
ISBN-13: 978-1848138230
Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.8 x 2 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,123,115 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Dr. Reece Jones is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a leading authority on political borders. He has published fifteen research articles in highly-ranked journals as well as opinion pieces in newspapers around the world on the role borders play in globalization and the global war on terror. He has won awards for both teaching and writing and was recently elected the Secretary/Treasurer for the Political Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book! 10 Aug 2012

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This book provides an insightful and lively discussion of how our professed ideals often collide with the reality of our deeds. If more politicians and voters would read books like this, our world would indeed be a more safe and humane place. My congratulations to Prof. Jones for writing a book that truly makes one think and reflect.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An insightful, important book on globalization and newly militarized borders. 11 Aug 2012

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Celebrants of globalization have claimed that integrated commerce will lead to a more peaceful world, in which the power of states wanes while innovation, competition, and cultural exchange flourish. Reece Jones's trenchant and sobering new book demonstrates, to the contrary, that globalization can proceed hand-in-hand with state fortification of the most brutal sort. By examining the recent construction of colossal border fences in the United States, Israel, and India, Jones shows how the rhetoric of anti-terrorism has been used not just to fortify previously porous frontiers but to exacerbate economic inequality, partition communities, and securitize democratic governments. For anyone interested in globalization, state formation, political geography, and human rights, this is a vital book: clearly and concisely written, vigorously argued, powerful and important.

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