Why am I passionate about this?
Beyond my fascination with borders as historical sites of conflict and shifting markers of control, Iāve spent an academic career studying the simultaneity of barrier and juncture. This research has led me to witness licit and illicit border crossings, refugee camps, commercial ports, smuggling, and conservation through cloistering. In my travels, Iāve perceived my vulnerability at certain borders and ease of passage at others. All of this afforded me insights into the human division and demarcation of space and resulted in books and articles on varied facets of bordering in the hope that I might contribute to inhibiting the bad and facilitating the good where territories meet.
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Why did Alexander love this book?
I found this book eminently readable. Itās like a story about borders, offering vivid portrayals of real conflictual political geographies. Dodds makes clear that borders play political, social, economic, and environmental roles that must be considered for any prospect of peace in the future.
This is the sort of book that educated readers, from college students to international jet setters, would find enlightening as to bordersā breadth of relevance in the 21st Century.
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A thrilling insight into international geopolitics by one of the worldās leading experts, examining the past, future, and present meaning of borders from the fall of the Berlin Wall to 9/11, Palestine to Pakistan, North Korea to Trumpās Wall, and beyond
What do the worldās best-known, most dangerous, and most unexpected border conflicts mean for our changing international relationships?
In The New Border Wars, border expert Klaus Dodds journeys into the geopolitical clashes of tomorrow in an eye-opening tour of border wallsāliteral and figurativeāfrom the Gaza Strip to the space race. In the Himalayas, the Mediterranean, and elsewhere, the tensionā¦