Reece Jones is an associate professor of geography at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and a leading authority on political borders. He has published fifteen research articles in highly ranked journals as well as opinion pieces in newspapers around the world on the role borders play in globalization and the global war on terror. He has won awards for both teaching and writing and was recently elected the Secretary/Treasurer for the Political Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers.

• Introduction: Fortress Democracy1. Borders, Barriers, and the War on Terror2. Securing the 'Homeland' in the United States3. Border Fencing and the Global War on Terror in India4. 'Arafat is our bin Laden': Territory and Terrorism in Israel and Palestine5. Building Up, Rippling Out: Enforcement Practices at the US-Mexican Border6. The Agents of Exception in the Indian Borderlands7. The practices of Insecurity: The Barrier in the West Bank8. The Enduring Significance of BordersAppendix: Methodology and MethodsNotesBibliographyIndex

At a time when many commentators are preoccupied by forces undermining the power and authority of the territorial state, Border Walls serves as an important reminder that the modernist political-territorial order still matters. Reece Jones convincingly shows that the border security arrangements of the past decade are likely to be among the most enduring consequences of the global "war on terror" - not just for how people move around and use space, but for how they think about the political geographic organization of the planet.