This photo taken on February 12, 2017 shows visitors looking through binoculars towards North Korea from a South Korean observation post in the border city of Paju, near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas.
Built to keep out migrants, traffickers, or an enemy group, border walls have emerged as a one-size-fits-all response to the vulnerability felt by many societies in today's globalized world, says an expert on the phenomenon.
Practically non-existent at the end of World War II, by the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 the number of border walls across the globe had risen to 11.
That number has since jumped to 70, prompted by an increased sense of insecurity following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and the 2011 Arab Spring, according to Elisabeth Vallet, director of the Observatory of Geopolitics at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM).
This image is part of a photo package of 47 recent images to go with AFP story on walls, barriers and security fences around the world. More pictures available on afpforum.com / AFP PHOTO / JUNG Yeon-JeJUNG YEON-JE (AFP)This photo taken on February 10, 2017 shows Iraqis walking next to the Iraq-Kuwait border barrier near the town of Umm Qasr.
Built to keep out migrants, traffickers, or an enemy group, border walls have emerged as a one-size-fits-all response to the vulnerability felt by many societies in today's globalized world, says an expert on the phenomenon.
Practically non-existent at the end of World War II, by the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 the number of border walls across the globe had risen to 11.
That number has since jumped to 70, prompted by an increased sense of insecurity following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and the 2011 Arab Spring, according to Elisabeth Vallet, director of the Observatory of Geopolitics at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM).
This image is part of a photo package of 47 recent images to go with AFP story on walls, barriers and security fences around the world. More pictures available on afpforum.com / AFP PHOTO / HAIDAR MOHAMMED ALIHAIDAR MOHAMMED ALI (AFP)This photo taken on February 9, 2017 shows a Pakistani border security soldier standing guard at the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan at the Torkham Border Post in Pakistan's Khyber Agency.
Built to keep out migrants, traffickers, or an enemy group, border walls have emerged as a one-size-fits-all response to the vulnerability felt by many societies in today's globalized world, says an expert on the phenomenon.
Practically non-existent at the end of World War II, by the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 the number of border walls across the globe had risen to 11.
That number has since jumped to 70, prompted by an increased sense of insecurity following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and the 2011 Arab Spring, according to Elisabeth Vallet, director of the Observatory of Geopolitics at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM).
This image is part of a photo package of 47 recent images to go with AFP story on walls, barriers and security fences around the world. More pictures available on afpforum.com / AFP PHOTO / ABDUL MAJEEDABDUL MAJEED (AFP)This photo taken on February 20, 2017 shows Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel symbolically slamming gates shut as they perform during the daily beating of the retreat ceremony on the India-Pakistan Border at Wagah.
Built to keep out migrants, traffickers, or an enemy group, border walls have emerged as a one-size-fits-all response to the vulnerability felt by many societies in today's globalized world, says an expert on the phenomenon.
Practically non-existent at the end of World War II, by the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 the number of border walls across the globe had risen to 11.
That number has since jumped to 70, prompted by an increased sense of insecurity following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and the 2011 Arab Spring, according to Elisabeth Vallet, director of the Observatory of Geopolitics at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM).
This image is part of a photo package of 47 recent images to go with AFP story on walls, barriers and security fences around the world. More pictures available on afpforum.com / AFP PHOTO / NARINDER NANUNARINDER NANU (AFP)This photo taken on February 7, 2017 shows Israeli tourists taking pictures of graffiti on a protective cement wall in the Israeli Kibbutz of Netiv Haashara, near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
Built to keep out migrants, traffickers, or an enemy group, border walls have emerged as a one-size-fits-all response to the vulnerability felt by many societies in today's globalized world, says an expert on the phenomenon.
Practically non-existent at the end of World War II, by the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 the number of border walls across the globe had risen to 11.
That number has since jumped to 70, prompted by an increased sense of insecurity following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and the 2011 Arab Spring, according to Elisabeth Vallet, director of the Observatory of Geopolitics at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM).
This image is part of a photo package of 47 recent images to go with AFP story on walls, barriers and security fences around the world. More pictures available on afpforum.com / AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZJACK GUEZ (AFP)This photo taken on February 20, 2017 shows Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel patrolling along a fence at the India-Pakistan border, at Wagah some 35kms from Amritsar.
Built to keep out migrants, traffickers, or an enemy group, border walls have emerged as a one-size-fits-all response to the vulnerability felt by many societies in today's globalized world, says an expert on the phenomenon.
Practically non-existent at the end of World War II, by the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 the number of border walls across the globe had risen to 11.
That number has since jumped to 70, prompted by an increased sense of insecurity following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and the 2011 Arab Spring, according to Elisabeth Vallet, director of the Observatory of Geopolitics at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM).
This image is part of a photo package of 47 recent images to go with AFP story on walls, barriers and security fences around the world. More pictures available on afpforum.com / AFP PHOTO / NARINDER NANUNARINDER NANU (AFP)This photo taken on February 21, 2017 in the village of Spielfeld, Austria, shows a border crossing and a fence at the Austria-Slovenia border.
Built to keep out migrants, traffickers, or an enemy group, border walls have emerged as a one-size-fits-all response to the vulnerability felt by many societies in today's globalized world, says an expert on the phenomenon.
Practically non-existent at the end of World War II, by the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 the number of border walls across the globe had risen to 11.
That number has since jumped to 70, prompted by an increased sense of insecurity following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and the 2011 Arab Spring, according to Elisabeth Vallet, director of the Observatory of Geopolitics at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM).
This image is part of a photo package of 47 recent images to go with AFP story on walls, barriers and security fences around the world. More pictures available on afpforum.com / AFP PHOTO / RENE GOMOLJRENE GOMOLJ (AFP)This photo taken on February 21, 2017 shows workers fixing the barbed wire fence on the Bulgaria-Turkey border near the town of Lesovo.
Built to keep out migrants, traffickers, or an enemy group, border walls have emerged as a one-size-fits-all response to the vulnerability felt by many societies in today's globalized world, says an expert on the phenomenon.
Practically non-existent at the end of World War II, by the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 the number of border walls across the globe had risen to 11.
That number has since jumped to 70, prompted by an increased sense of insecurity following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and the 2011 Arab Spring, according to Elisabeth Vallet, director of the Observatory of Geopolitics at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM).
This image is part of a photo package of 47 recent images to go with AFP story on walls, barriers and security fences around the world. More pictures available on afpforum.com / AFP PHOTO / NIKOLAY DOYCHINOVNIKOLAY DOYCHINOV (AFP)This photo taken on February 13, 2017 shows a man walking after he crossed a bridge (R), which can be used only by villagers granted a special permit, within a Frontier Closed Area from Lo Wu MTR station in Hong Kong and buildings (back) behind the Hong Kong border fence in Shenzhen, China.
Built to keep out migrants, traffickers, or an enemy group, border walls have emerged as a one-size-fits-all response to the vulnerability felt by many societies in today's globalized world, says an expert on the phenomenon.
Practically non-existent at the end of World War II, by the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 the number of border walls across the globe had risen to 11.
That number has since jumped to 70, prompted by an increased sense of insecurity following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and the 2011 Arab Spring, according to Elisabeth Vallet, director of the Observatory of Geopolitics at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM).
This image is part of a photo package of 47 recent images to go with AFP story on walls, barriers and security fences around the world. More pictures available on afpforum.com / AFP PHOTO / Anthony WALLACEANTHONY WALLACE (AFP)This photo taken on February 12, 2017 shows ribbons with inscriptions calling for peace and reunification hung from a military barbed wire fence at Imjingak peace park in the border city of Paju near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas.
Built to keep out migrants, traffickers, or an enemy group, border walls have emerged as a one-size-fits-all response to the vulnerability felt by many societies in today's globalized world, says an expert on the phenomenon.
Practically non-existent at the end of World War II, by the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 the number of border walls across the globe had risen to 11.
That number has since jumped to 70, prompted by an increased sense of insecurity following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and the 2011 Arab Spring, according to Elisabeth Vallet, director of the Observatory of Geopolitics at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM).
This image is part of a photo package of 47 recent images to go with AFP story on walls, barriers and security fences around the world. More pictures available on afpforum.com / AFP PHOTO / JUNG Yeon-JeJUNG YEON-JE (AFP)This photo taken on February 13, 2017 shows shows the border fence (C) with Shenzhen, China (background).
Built to keep out migrants, traffickers, or an enemy group, border walls have emerged as a one-size-fits-all response to the vulnerability felt by many societies in today's globalized world, says an expert on the phenomenon.
Practically non-existent at the end of World War II, by the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 the number of border walls across the globe had risen to 11.
That number has since jumped to 70, prompted by an increased sense of insecurity following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and the 2011 Arab Spring, according to Elisabeth Vallet, director of the Observatory of Geopolitics at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM).
This image is part of a photo package of 47 recent images to go with AFP story on walls, barriers and security fences around the world. More pictures available on afpforum.com / AFP PHOTO / Anthony WALLACEANTHONY WALLACE (AFP)This photo taken on February 9, 2017 shows an Indian motorcyclist riding past Border Security Force (BSF) personnel taking part in a routine patrol near the India-Bangladesh border in the village of Lankamura, on the outskirts of Agartala.
Built to keep out migrants, traffickers, or an enemy group, border walls have emerged as a one-size-fits-all response to the vulnerability felt by many societies in today's globalized world, says an expert on the phenomenon.
Practically non-existent at the end of World War II, by the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 the number of border walls across the globe had risen to 11.
That number has since jumped to 70, prompted by an increased sense of insecurity following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and the 2011 Arab Spring, according to Elisabeth Vallet, director of the Observatory of Geopolitics at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM).
This image is part of a photo package of 47 recent images to go with AFP story on walls, barriers and security fences around the world. More pictures available on afpforum.com / AFP PHOTO / Arindam DEYARINDAM DEY (AFP)This photo taken on February 12, 2017 shows South Korean guard posts along military barbed wire fence in the border city of Paju near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas.
Built to keep out migrants, traffickers, or an enemy group, border walls have emerged as a one-size-fits-all response to the vulnerability felt by many societies in today's globalized world, says an expert on the phenomenon.
Practically non-existent at the end of World War II, by the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 the number of border walls across the globe had risen to 11.
That number has since jumped to 70, prompted by an increased sense of insecurity following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and the 2011 Arab Spring, according to Elisabeth Vallet, director of the Observatory of Geopolitics at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM).
This image is part of a photo package of 47 recent images to go with AFP story on walls, barriers and security fences around the world. More pictures available on afpforum.com / AFP PHOTO / JUNG Yeon-JeJUNG YEON-JE (AFP)This photo taken on February 2, 2017 shows a four-metre-high (13-foot) wall, running along a kilometre-long stretch of the main road leading to Calais port, aimed at stopping migrants who attempt to reach its shores.
Built to keep out migrants, traffickers, or an enemy group, border walls have emerged as a one-size-fits-all response to the vulnerability felt by many societies in today's globalized world, says an expert on the phenomenon.
Practically non-existent at the end of World War II, by the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 the number of border walls across the globe had risen to 11.
That number has since jumped to 70, prompted by an increased sense of insecurity following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and the 2011 Arab Spring, according to Elisabeth Vallet, director of the Observatory of Geopolitics at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM).
This image is part of a photo package of 47 recent images to go with AFP story on walls, barriers and security fences around the world. More pictures available on afpforum.com / AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE HUGUENPHILIPPE HUGUEN (AFP)This photo taken on February 17, 2017 shows a general view of Macedonia's southern border with Greece near Gevgelija.
Built to keep out migrants, traffickers, or an enemy group, border walls have emerged as a one-size-fits-all response to the vulnerability felt by many societies in today's globalized world, says an expert on the phenomenon.
Practically non-existent at the end of World War II, by the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 the number of border walls across the globe had risen to 11.
That number has since jumped to 70, prompted by an increased sense of insecurity following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and the 2011 Arab Spring, according to Elisabeth Vallet, director of the Observatory of Geopolitics at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM).
This image is part of a photo package of 47 recent images to go with AFP story on walls, barriers and security fences around the world. More pictures available on afpforum.com / AFP PHOTO / Robert ATANASOVSKIROBERT ATANASOVSKI (AFP)This photo taken on February 7, 2017 shows an aerial view of the border fence near the Hungarian-Serbian border at Kelebia village.
Built to keep out migrants, traffickers, or an enemy group, border walls have emerged as a one-size-fits-all response to the vulnerability felt by many societies in today's globalized world, says an expert on the phenomenon.
Practically non-existent at the end of World War II, by the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 the number of border walls across the globe had risen to 11.
That number has since jumped to 70, prompted by an increased sense of insecurity following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and the 2011 Arab Spring, according to Elisabeth Vallet, director of the Observatory of Geopolitics at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM).
This image is part of a photo package of 47 recent images to go with AFP story on walls, barriers and security fences around the world. More pictures available on afpforum.com / AFP PHOTO / ATTILA KISBENEDEKATTILA KISBENEDEK (AFP)AFP presents a photo package of 47 recent images to go with AFP story on walls, barriers and security fences around the world. More pictures available on afpforum.com
Built to keep out migrants, traffickers, or an enemy group, border walls have emerged as a one-size-fits-all response to the vulnerability felt by many societies in today's globalized world, says an expert on the phenomenon.
Practically non-existent at the end of World War II, by the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 the number of border walls across the globe had risen to 11.
That number has since jumped to 70, prompted by an increased sense of insecurity following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and the 2011 Arab Spring, according to Elisabeth Vallet, director of the Observatory of Geopolitics at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). / AFP PHOTOMENAHEM KAHANA NARINDER NANU ATTILA KISBENEDEK IAKOVOS HATZISTAVROU GUILLERMO ARIAS PAUL FAITH MARIO VAZQUEZ STRINGER JUNG YEON-JE PHILIPPE HUGUEN JURE MAKOVEC JACK GUEZ ROBERT ATANASOVSKI RENE GOMOLJ (AFP)Women shelter from the rain next to the walls of the old Medina of Meknes, a UNESCO world heritage city, in Morocco, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)Mosa'ab Elshamy (AP)A picture taken on February 6, 2017 shows graffiti by Emirati artist Ashwaq Abdullah on the wall of a building on Dubai's 2nd of December street, which is part of the government-funded Dubai Street Museum project on February 6, 2017.
The streets of Dubai may be known for architectural superlatives like Burj Khalifa, the highest of the world's high-rises, and the Middle East's largest shopping centre Dubai Mall. But a group of street artists now also wants to turn the concrete walls of a fast-growing urban sprawl into an open-air museum that celebrates Emirati heritage and speaks to everyone in the multicultural city.
/ AFP PHOTO / NEZAR BALOUT / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTIONNEZAR BALOUT (AFP)A picture taken on February 6, 2017 shows graffiti by Norweigan street artist Martin Whatson on Dubai's 2nd of December street, which is part of the government-funded Dubai Street Museum project on February 6, 2017.
The streets of Dubai may be known for architectural superlatives like Burj Khalifa, the highest of the world's high-rises, and the Middle East's largest shopping centre Dubai Mall. But a group of street artists now also wants to turn the concrete walls of a fast-growing urban sprawl into an open-air museum that celebrates Emirati heritage and speaks to everyone in the multicultural city.
/ AFP PHOTO / NEZAR BALOUT / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTIONNEZAR BALOUT (AFP)A man takes a picture of graffiti by Tunisian street artist The Inkman on a wall of Dubai's 2nd of December street, which is part of the government-funded Dubai Street Museum project, on February 6, 2017.
The streets of Dubai may be known for architectural superlatives like Burj Khalifa, the highest of the world's high-rises, and the Middle East's largest shopping centre Dubai Mall. But a group of street artists now also wants to turn the concrete walls of a fast-growing urban sprawl into an open-air museum that celebrates Emirati heritage and speaks to everyone in the multicultural city.
/ AFP PHOTO / NEZAR BALOUT / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTIONNEZAR BALOUT (AFP)A picture taken on February 6, 2017 shows graffiti by Emirati muralist Ashwaq Abdullah, paying homage to founders of the United Arab Emirates, sheikhs Rashed Al Maktoum and Zayed Al Nahyan, on a wall of Dubai's 2nd of December street, which is part of the government-funded Dubai Street Museum project.
The streets of Dubai may be known for architectural superlatives like Burj Khalifa, the highest of the world's high-rises, and the Middle East's largest shopping centre Dubai Mall. But a group of street artists now also wants to turn the concrete walls of a fast-growing urban sprawl into an open-air museum that celebrates Emirati heritage and speaks to everyone in the multicultural city.
/ AFP PHOTO / NEZAR BALOUT / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTIONNEZAR BALOUT (AFP)A picture taken on February 6, 2017 shows graffiti by Malaysian-based Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic on a wall of Dubai's 2nd of December street, which is part of the government-funded Dubai Street Museum project.
The streets of Dubai may be known for architectural superlatives like Burj Khalifa, the highest of the world's high-rises, and the Middle East's largest shopping centre Dubai Mall. But a group of street artists now also wants to turn the concrete walls of a fast-growing urban sprawl into an open-air museum that celebrates Emirati heritage and speaks to everyone in the multicultural city.
/ AFP PHOTO / NEZAR BALOUTNEZAR BALOUT (AFP)
