Acceso usuarios
Edoardo Greblo
The apparently unrelenting building of walls meant to protect the geopolitical borders of sovereign states from undesirable foreign nationals is undoubtedly source of discomfort and embarrassment for the democratic states observing the rule of law. A democratic state surely needs political borders and therefore a demos can establish itself as sovereign of a well-defined area only if the representative system is expected to stand on its own feet. But nevertheless, the thesis of the present article is that the will to defend a spatially limited “we” by lines of division defended by cement flows and barbed wire fences may perhaps foster fantasies of containment policies or recreate fictional image of national self-sufficiency, but it is indeed empirically ineffective and illegitimate in legal terms.
