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 borders 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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