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Wendy Brown

Wendy Brown is Emanuel Heller Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire.

Titles by This Author

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty

By Wendy Brown

Why do walls marking national boundaries proliferate amid widespread proclamations of global connectedness and despite anticipation of a world without borders? Why are barricades built of concrete, steel, and barbed wire when threats to the nation today are so often miniaturized, vaporous, clandestine, dispersed, or networked?