FENCED DEMOCRACY. AN ANALYSIS OF THE BORDER WALLS FROM A PARADOX OF DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY CONCEPT
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https://doi.org/10.21530/ci.v15n1.2020.1001Abstract
The article aims to analyse the state border fencing processes over the last thirty years in order to understand how they integrate a contradictory dynamic of liberal democracy, enhanced by impacts that the interconnection between the political, social, cultural and economic systems arising from globalization were imposed to the nation state. The text is presented in two sections, the first dedicated to expose a brief analysis of physical border fencing processes since 1989. The analysis of the first section proposes to emphasize the numerical increase and the change in functionality of boundary walls as contradictory aspects
to the conception of cosmopolitan globalization. In the second section, the article uses Seyla Benhabib’s idea of the paradox of democratic legitimacy to develop a theoretical-analytical approach to the effects of globalization on the westphalian sovereign state, a relation that allows to understand not only the dynamics of enclosures but also non-explicit aspects of globalization itself.
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