new works by Prisoners of Geography's No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author; We sense greater division than before. This fascinating analysis explains why. Walls are being built. Identity politics and nationalism are once again on the rise. Over the past ten years, thousands of miles of fences and obstacles have been built, and they are changing the political environment. We build walls for a variety of reasons because we are divided along various lines: wealth, race, religion, and politics. The rifts in Europe over the past 10 years endanger not only the continent's unity, but even liberal democracy itself in some nations. The Party's need to control the divisions caused by capitalism in China will determine how the country develops in the future. The US's justification for having a border with Mexico wall taps into the fear that the USA will no longer be a white majority country in 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. Covering China; the USA; Israel and Palestine; the Middle East; the Indian Subcontinent; Africa; Europe and the UK, bestselling author Tim Marshall presents a gripping and unflinching analysis of the fault lines that will shape our world for years to come.