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Description of  The New Border Wars: The Conflicts That Will Define Our Future

A thrilling insight into international geopolitics by one of the worlds 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 Trumps Wall, and beyond What do the worlds best-known, most dangerous, and most unexpected border conflicts mean for our changing international relationships? In , border expert Klaus Dodds journeys into the geopolitical clashes of tomorrow in an eye-opening tour of border wallsliteral and figurativefrom the Gaza Strip to the space race. In the Himalayas, the Mediterranean, and elsewhere, the tension inherent to trying to divide the world into separate parcels has not gone away. And with climate change shifting our natural borders, from mountains to glaciers to rivers, the question of how we live in a world thats becoming warmer and wetterand growing in populationlooms large. Dodds answers why now more than ever we are likely to see more walls, barriers, and securitization in our daily lives. discovers just what borders truly mean in the modern world: How are they built what do they signify for citizens and governments and how do they help us understand our political past and, most importantly, our diplomatic future? Read more