Walled States, Waning Sovereignty is an influential book published in 2010 by the American political theorist Wendy Brown. It seeks to explain a contemporary trend of nations building border walls throughout the world. Brown says this is a symptom of nations actually losing their power. They try to reassert national sovereignty through the visible symbol of a wall, but this only betrays the actual loss of sovereignty they are experiencing through the rise of global capitalism.
At once a work of political theory, engaging with important thinkers from John Locke to Giorgio Agamben, and a study of the present, Walled States, Waning Sovereignty is an ambitious mix of philosophy, history,...
