Edition |
Revised and updated edition, Paperback edition |
Descript |
310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Walls are going up. Nationalism and identity politics are on the rise once more. Thousands of miles of fences and barriers have been erected since the turn of the century, and they are redefining our political landscape. There are many reasons why walls go up, because we are divided in many ways: wealth, race, religion, politics. In Europe the divisions of the past decade threaten not only European unity, but in some countries liberal democracy itself. In China, the Party's need to contain the divisions wrought by capitalism will define the nation's future. In the USA the rationale for the Mexican border wall runs deeper than the need to control illegal immigration; it taps into the fear that the USA will no longer be a white majority country during the course of this century. Understanding what has divided us, past and present, is essential to understanding much of what's going on in the world today |
Subject |
World politics -- 21st century
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Nationalism
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Identity politics
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Isolationism
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Division (Philosophy)
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Internationell politik
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Nationalism
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Identitetspolitik
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Murar
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Politik
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Classmark |
320.90512
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ISBN/ISSN |
9781783963973 |
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1783963972 |
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