· Global Focus with American Appeal: The New Border Wars takes a fascinating global look at future and past border conflicts, finding plenty of examples at home in America: 9/11, Trump's wall, the separation of families at the border, and drone use in war and beyond. · Perennial Topic: Borders affect all of our lives in visible and invisible ways, and readers will appreciate the book's perspective on entrenched and evolving border conflicts from Israel and Palestine to India and Pakistan and North and South Korea. · Timely Relevance: With factors like climate change, data technology, and population growth, there is a vast and increasing audience for The New Border Wars and its chronicle of borders shifting from landscape change, continuing impasses (such as Israel and Palestine), and technological innovation. · Author with Strong Editorial Connections: Since 2006, Dodds has written a monthly geopolitics column for Geographical Magazine . He is currently editorial board member of Critical Studies on Security, Geopolitics, International Journal of James Bond Studies, Marine Policy, Political Geography and Polar Record, co-editor of the Routledge Geopolitics Series, and editor in chief of Territory, Politics and Governance . · Consistently Prize-Winning Expert Author: In November 2016, Dodds was awarded a Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust (2017-2020) for a project examining "A new North? The making and remaking of the global Arctic." In November 2005, he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for achievements in geopolitics and human geography.