Border Walls : Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India, and Israel.

Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, why are the notable democracies of the US, 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 security barriers totaling an astoni...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jones, Reece
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Zed Books, 2012.
Temas:
Israel
University of South Alabama
Boundaries.
Frontières.
boundaries.
International relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
Boundaries
Sicherheitspolitik
Grenzschutz
Staatsgrenze
Grenzbefestigung
Terrorismus
Bekämpfung
Ägypten
Palästinensische Autonomiegebiete
Bangladesch
Indien
Mexiko
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: fortress democracy
  • Borders, barriers, and the war on terror
  • Securing the 'homeland' in the United States
  • Border fencing and the global war on terror in India
  • 'Arafat is our bin Laden' : territory and terrorism in Israel and Palestine
  • Building up, rippling out : enforcement practices at the US-Mexican border
  • The agents of exception in the Indian borderlands
  • The practices of insecurity : the barrier in the West Bank
  • The enduring significance of borders.

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