Border walls [electronic resource] : security and the war on terror in the United States, India and Israel / Reece Jones.

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Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, why are leading democracies like the United States, 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 an astonishing combined tot...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Reece (Author)
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Zed Books, ©2012.
Subjects:
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
United States > Foreign relations > 21st century.
India > Foreign relations > 21st century.
Israel > Foreign relations > 21st century.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2012 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
Variant Title:
Security and the war on terror in the United States, India and Israel
Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India, and Israel
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • 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.