Introduction: fortress democracy. -- Borders, barriers, and the war on terror. -- Securing the 'homeland' in the United States. -- Border fencing and the global war on terror in India. -- 'Arafat is our bin Laden': territory and terrorism in Israel and Palestine. -- Building up, rippling out: enforcement practices at the US-Mexican border. -- The agents of exception in the Indian borderlands. -- The practices of insecurity: the barrier in the West Bank. -- The enduring significance of borders.

1. Israel -- Foreign relations -- 21st century
2. India -- Foreign relations -- 21st century
3. United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century
4. War on terrorism
5. 2001-2009