Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Brown Wendy
Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Brown Wendy A prize-winning examination of why nation-states wall themselves off despite widespread proclamations of global connectedness.Why do walls marking…
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Walled States, Waning Sovereignty Brown Wendy
A prize-winning examination of why nation-states wall themselves off despite widespread proclamations of global connectedness.Why do walls marking national boundaries proliferate amid widespread proclamations of global connectedness and despite anticipation of a world without borders? Drawing on classical and contemporary political theories of state sovereignty in order to understand how state power and national identity persist amid its decline, Brown considers both the need of the state for legitimacy and the popular desires that incite the Why are barricades built of concrete, steel, and barbed wire when threats to the nation today are so often miniaturized, vaporous, clandestine, dispersed, or networked?In Walled States, Waning Sovereignty, Wendy Brown considers the recent spate of wall building in contrast to the erosion of nation-state sovereignty.
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