

The Age of Walls
How Barriers Between Nations Are Changing Our World
Author: Tim Marshall
Narrator: Nigel Patterson
Unabridged: 7 hr 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 10/09/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, Political Science, Globalization
Synopsis
In fact, at least sixty-five countries, more than a third of the world's nation-states, have barriers along their borders. There are many reasons why walls go up, because we are divided in many ways: wealth, race, religion, and politics, to name a few. Understanding what is behind these divisions is essential to understanding much of what's going on in the world today.
The Age of Walls examines how walls (which Marshall calls "monuments to the failure of politics"), borders, and barriers have been shaping our political landscape for hundreds of years, and especially since 2001, and how they figure in the diplomatic relations and geo-political events of today.