Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls
Author: Tim Marshall
Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Limited
Year of Publication: 2018
Print Length: 320 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Geography, Popular Science, Political Science, Social Science
Area: China, The United States of America (USA), Palestine/Israel, The Middle East, Indian Subcontinent, South Asia, Africa, Europe, The United Kingdom (UK)
Topic: Geopolitics, Politics & Power, Sovereignty, Security, Borders, State Formation, Nation-Building & Nationhood, Nationalism
Which side of the fence are you on?
Every story has two sides, and so does every wall. We’re in a new era of tribalism and the barricades are going up.
Money, race, religion, politics: these are the things that divide us. Trump’s wall says as much about America’s divided past as it does its future. The Great Firewall of China separates ‘us’ from ‘them’. In Europe, the explosive combination of politics and migration threatens liberal democracy itself.
Covering China; the USA; Israel and Palestine; the Middle East; the Indian Subcontinent; Africa; Europe and the UK, in this gripping read bestselling author Tim Marshall delves into our past and our present to reveal the fault lines that will shape our world for years to come.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Great Firewall: China
2. Build that Wall!: USA
3. Facts on the Ground: Israel and Palestine
4. Lines in the Sand: The Middle East
5. A Magnet for Migrants: The Indian Subcontinent
6. State of the Nations: Africa
7. Ever Closer Union?: Europe
8. The Groans of the Britons: UK
Conclusion: The Spaces in Between
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
Tim Marshall is a leading authority on foreign affairs with more than thirty years of reporting experience. He was diplomatic editor at Sky News and before that worked for the BBC and LBC/IRN radio. He has reported from forty countries and covered conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Israel. He is the author of Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World; The Age of Walls: How Barriers Between Nations Are Changing Our World; and A Flag Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of National Symbols. He is founder and editor of the current affairs site TheWhatandtheWhy.com.
Source: https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Tim-Marshall/523742523
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