Published 03:49 IST, November 5th 2019
Walls continue to rise 30 years after fall of Berlin Wall: Report
Walls continue to rise 30 years after the fall of Berlin Wall with Brexit and strict immigration laws in US leading to the construction of US-Mexico border wall
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Transnational Institute, an Amsterdam-based think-tank wrote in its "Building Walls" report in 2018 that walls, both real and imaginary are being constructed everywhere. While Berlin Wall physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 following which it came down, barriers and isolationism have continued to state report. US President Donald Trump's Mexico border wall is amongst recent magnanimous examples of walls being built to separate nations which have set a wave of barriers from West Bank's "separation barrier" to anti-migrant fence in Hungary facing Serbia and Croatia. Though people rejoiced fall of Berlin wall and hoped to an end to isolationism, it seems vision was short-lived, said Alexandra vosseloff, a senior researcher at International Peace Institute in New York in a statement to media. recent strong instances of walls are that between US and Mexico and US' Government's anti-migrant policies, also Britain's exit from European Union.
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She ded that walls have multiplied since fall of Berlin wall which occurred 30 years ago and y are all physical, political and legislative right w.
Globalization led to nationalism
Globalization too has fuelled nationalism claims Bru Tertrais, deputy director of Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris in his statement. rush of freedom me people rethink ir national identity and that led to 9/11 attacks, Tertrais ded. event was a major factor that led to multiplication of furr barriers in US and created a barrier of fear and threat amongst all nations. re was a sense of paraia and erosion of political freedoms post incident, wrote Raphael Bossong of German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin in a blog entitled "New Walls I: Militarizing Borders in Europe" for Bertelsmann Stiftung research foundation. Ecomic shocks, rising inequality and a growing political backlash against globalization led to a resurgence of nationalism in West, he ded.
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re are about 70 to 75 walls which are being built simultaneously across world, told Elisabeth Vallet, a political analyst at Cana's Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM) to media.
People are w more vulnerable and seek more protection due to globalization claimed Former French diplomat Michel Foucher, author of " Return of Borders". Foucher ds that at a time when populism is growing fast, a wall is a quick solution that a populist government can quickly exploit. According to Transnational Institute, member states of European Union and Schengen Area have constructed almost 1,000 km of walls, equivalent of more than six times total length of Berlin Wall, since nineties to prevent displaced people migrating into Europe. Yet y have t stopped any form of infiltration or smuggling.
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Foucher said that wall serves as a metaphor, it is supposed to calm our fears.
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03:48 IST, November 5th 2019