No Go World

War-torn deserts, jihadist killings, trucks weighted down with contraband and migrants—from the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands to the Sahara, images of danger depict a new world disorder on the global margins. With vivid detail, Ruben Andersson traverses this terrain to provide a startling new understanding of what is happening in remote “danger zones.” Instead of buying into apocalyptic visions, Andersson takes aim at how Western states and international organizations conduct military, aid, and border interventions in a dangerously myopic fashion, further disconnecting the world’s rich and poor. Using drones, proxy forces, border reinforcement, and outsourced aid, risk-obsessed powers are helping to remap the world into zones of insecurity and danger. The result is a vision of chaos crashing into fortified borders, with national and global politics riven by fear. Andersson contends that we must reconnect and snap out of this dangerous spiral, which affects us whether we live in Texas or Timbuktu. Only by developing a new cartography of hope can we move beyond the political geography of fear that haunts us.

Deserturi devastate de razboi, ucideri jihadiste, camioane impovarate de contrabanda si migranti - de la zonele de frontiera afgan-pakistaneze pana la Sahara, imaginile pericolului descriu o noua tulburare mondiala la marginile globale. Cu detalii vii, Ruben Andersson traverseaza acest teren pentru a oferi o noua intelegere uimitoare a ceea ce se intampla in „zonele periculoase” indepartate. In loc sa cumpere viziuni apocaliptice, Andersson urmareste modul in care statele occidentale si organizatiile internationale desfasoara interventii militare, de ajutor si de frontiera intr-un mod periculos de miopic, deconectand in continuare bogatii si saracii lumii.