Divided

Why We're Living in an Age of Walls

Tim Marshall

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English

ELLIOT & CLARK PUBLISHING
01 November 2018

Politics & government; Political science & theory; International relations

Walls are going up. Nationalism and identity politics are on the rise once more. Thousands of miles of fences and barriers have been erected since the turn of the century, and they are redefining our political landscape.

There are many reasons why walls go up, because we are divided in many ways: wealth, race, religion, politics. In Europe the divisions of the past decade threaten not only European unity, but in some countries liberal democracy itself. In China, the Party's need to contain the divisions wrought by capitalism will define the nation's future. In the USA the rationale for the Mexican border wall runs deeper than the need to control illegal immigration; it taps into the fear that the USA will no longer be a white majority country during the course of this century.

Understanding what has divided us, past and present, is essential to understanding much of what's going on in the world today. In eight chapters covering China; the USA; Israel; the Middle East; India and Bangladesh; Africa; Europe and the UK, bestselling author Tim Marshall presents an unflinching and essential overview of the fault lines that will shape our world for years to come.

"Accomplished, well researched and pacey ... for anyone who wants to look beyond the headlines and explore the context of some of the biggest challenges facing the world today, it is fascinating" - City AM

"One of the best books about geopolitics you could imagine" - Nicholas Lezard, Evening Standard, on Prisoners of Geography

By: Tim Marshall
Imprint: ELLIOT & CLARK PUBLISHING
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781783963973
ISBN 10: 1783963972
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 November 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

CONTENTS; Introduction 1; 1 The Great Firewall: China 9; 2 Build that Wall!: USA 41; 3 Facts on the Ground: Israel and Palestine 77; 4 Lines in the Sand: The Middle East 109; 5 A Magnet for Migrants: The Indian Subcontinent 135; 6 State of the Nations: Africa 171; 7 Ever Closer Union?: Europe 201; 8 The Groans of the Britons: UK 24; Conclusion: The Spaces in Between 275; Bibliography 289; Acknowledgements 297; Index 299

Tim Marshall is a leading authority on foreign affairs with more than 30 years of reporting experience. He was diplomatic editor at Sky News, and before that was working for the BBC and LBC/IRN radio. He has reported from 40 countries and covered conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Israel. He is the author of the no.1 Sunday Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography; Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags; Dirty Northern B*st*rds! and Other Tales from the Terraces: The Story of Britain's Football Chants; and Shadowplay: The Overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic (a bestseller in former Yugoslavia). He is founder and editor of the current affairs site TheWhatandtheWhy.com.

Reviews for Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls

"***** ""Informative and timely ... a readable primer on the world's biggest problems"" -- Daily Express; ""A timely and exhilarating clamber over the walls of history"" -- Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads; ""Accomplished, well researched and pacey ... for anyone who wants to look beyond the headlines and explore the context of some of the biggest challenges facing the world today, it is a fascinating and fast read"" -- City AM; ""Accessible and timely ... ultimately, Marshall's lesson is one that we should all heed: differences can be overcome"" -- Prospect; ""A very knowledgeable, timely book and a good primer on current problems in a longer-term context"" -- Irish News; ""Perceptive ... Marshall examines the walls - physical, religious, ethnic, psychological - that fence people off or, at times, pen them in... He has written frankly about the world. We deny this at our own peril"" -- The National; ""Striking words ... Tim Marshall performs the daunting, yet highly pertinent, task of trying to make sense of one of the biggest issues of our times: in a world that is increasingly globalised, a backlash apparently grows ever stronger. By taking a global view, Divided successfully brings some much-needed perspective"" - --Northern Slant"