{"title":"David J. Betz","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid J. Betz\u003c\/strong\u003e offers incisive explorations into contemporary political landscapes and global affairs. His works delve into the complex dynamics shaping modern governance, power structures, and societal change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful analysis and nuanced perspectives that challenge conventional thinking. With clarity and depth, Betz's writing illuminates the forces influencing our guarded age and the future of politics.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-guarded-age-by-david-j-betz-9781509544059","title":"The Guarded Age","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 came to symbolise the dawn of a new era of openness and connectivity. Yet today, the world is ever more divided, demarcated, and – quite literally – fortified. We are living in a guarded age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhy and how has this happened? Where will it take us? In this book, David J. Betz explores the expansion of fortified physical infrastructure at every level of the global political economy. In cities, where security is increasingly 'designed in' to public buildings and spaces as they are reshaped to mitigate mass terror attacks. Within corporations, who are burying their electronic assets in deep underground caverns and behind the leaded walls of ex-nuclear war bunkers against a range of threats and feared contingencies. In many urban areas, where the default condition of civil life is to be walled, gated, watched, and guarded. Year after year, hundreds of miles of linear obstacles – walls, ditches, and watchtowers – are added to national borders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePractically everywhere you look there are signs of innovative fortification, often designed to be overlooked. \u003ci\u003eThe Guarded Age\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the barriers which most have observed but few – until reading this book – have truly seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47599453929708,"sku":"9781509544059","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/826396923f48c83459b4d3dc0375f0be.jpg?v=1778022727"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/david-j-betz.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}