Manlio Graziano Publishes New Book with Stanford University Press

Manlio Graziano’s latest book, What is a Border?, was just released by Stanford University Press this month. In this book, Professor Graziano looks at the current evolution of the world order toward a reinstatement of the importance of borders after market integration and political and monetary unions marked the past three decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall. He provides a geopolitical and historical analysis of this phenomenon and asks whether it is “an out-of-step, deceptive last gasp of national sovereignty or the victory of the weight of history over the power of place”. In the end, Graziano warns that this comeback of borders “does not mean that they will resolve any problems” and rather looks at them as “dangerous fault lines in the contemporary world”. As Professor of Politics Ronnie Lipschutz from University of California Santa Cruz puts it: "Manlio Graziano makes clear the role of borders as symptoms of growing disorder rather than as causes."

What is a Border? was originally published in Italian under the title Frontiere by Italy’s leading social sciences publisher Il Mulino in March 2017.

See more details on What is a Border? on Stanford University Press website

Professor Manlio Graziano is the author of a dozen books on geopolitics and geopolitics of religion, including In Rome We Trust. The Rise of Catholics in American Political Life (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017), and Holy Wars and Holy Alliance. The Return of Religion to the Global Political Stage (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017). He is currently working on finishing his next book on the geopolitics of the United States, to be published next month by Il Mulino, and a chapter on religion and politics for an edited volume to be published by Routledge.

Update on February 28: link to Manlio Graziano's article on the Stanford University Press blog