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What is a border? / Manlio Graziano

Author
Graziano, Manlio, 1958-
Uniform Title
Frontiere. English
Published
Stanford, California : Stanford Briefs, an imprint of Stanford University Press, ]2018]
Physical Description
101 pages ; 21 cm

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Contents
A short history of borders -- The power of place -- Borders in progress.
Summary
The fall of the Berlin Wall, symbol of the bipolar order that emerged after World War II, seemed to inaugurate an age of ever fewer borders. The liberalization and integration of markets, the creation of vast free-trade zones, the birth of a new political and monetary union in Europe - all seemed to point in that direction. Only thirty years later, the tendency appears to be quite the opposite. Talk of a wall with Mexico is only one sign among many that boundaries and border are being revisited, expanding in number, and being reintroduced where they had virtually been abolished. Is this an out-of-step, deceptive last gasp of national sovereignty or the victory of the weight of history over the power of place? The fact that borders have made a comeback, warns Manlio Graziano, in his analysis of the dangerous fault lines that have opened in the contemporary world, does not mean that they will resolve any problems. His geopolitical history and analysis of the phenomenon draws our attention to the ground shifting under our feet in the present and allows us to speculate on what might happen in the future.
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ISBN
9781503605398 (paperback)
1503605396 (paperback)
Note
"Originally published in Italian in 2017 under the title Frontiere."
"Translated into English by Marina Korobko."
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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