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Reece Jones, Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India and Israel , Londres, New York, Zed Books, 2012.Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, why are leading democracies like theUnited States,India, andIsraelbuilding massive walls and fences on their borders? Despite predictions of a borderless world through globalization, these three countries alone have built an astonishing total of 5,700 kilometers of security barriers. In this groundbreaking work, Reece Jones analyzes how these controversial border security projects were justified in their respective countries, what consequences these physical barriers have on the lives of those living in these newly securitized spaces, and what long-term effects the hardening of political borders will have in these societies and globally.Border Walls is a bold, important intervention that demonstrates that the exclusion and violence necessary to secure the borders of the modern state often undermine the very ideals of freedom and democracy the barriers are meant to protect.(présentation éditeur)Voir aussi :Stéphane Rosière, Reece Jones, 2012,  "Teichopolitics: Re-considering Globalisation Through the Role of Walls and Fences", Geopolitics, 17:1, 217-234.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2011.574653