Walled states, waning sovereignty /

Brown, Wendy, 1955-

Walled states, waning sovereignty / Wendy Brown ; [with a new preface]. - 2nd paperback ed., 1st printing. - New York : Cambridge, Mass : Zone Books ; Distributed by the MIT Press, 2017. - 183 p. : ilus. ; 23 cm.

Discusses the spate of wall-building by countries around the world and considers the reasons why walls are being built in an increasingly globalized world in which threats to security come from sources that cannot be contained by brick and barbed wire.

9781935408086


Sovereignty.
Nation-state.
Globalization--Political aspects.
Border security.

JC327 / .B75 2017