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We weren’t ready for a world without walls

14 mins | Nov 15, 2019
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Why three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall we’re no closer to an international community. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 launched hopes of a freer and more liberal world. But has the haste to tear down walls yielded a global system in which bad actors are no longer held accountable? Writing in Foreign Policy, Michael Hirsh explains why our globalized world more often seems like an anti-community.

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