Militarized Global Apartheid

“In Militarized Global Apartheid, Catherine Besteman brings together two worlds that are as separate as possible yet shape each other in a dynamic they cannot quite escape. Even though inevitably the powerful have killer instruments that those without power lack, Besteman finds the many ways in which they also mark each other. She emphasizes the extent to which Western modes of production and labor force management generally did not bring a better world to the workers of Africa. This is a must-read book!” - Saskia Sassen, author of Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy

“Catherine Besteman's wonderfully capacious framework for understanding the myriad lines of division and modes of domination that compose the contemporary global order is both intellectually satisfying and politically urgent.” - Michael Hardt, coauthor of Assembly

"Militarized Global Apartheid isn’t light reading—good reading, yes; important reading, surely; light reading—no. . . . What Besteman adds to this conversation about capital’s exploitative power is a piecemeal categorization of the varied techniques the Global North uses to exploit the Global South." - Joseph Hurtgen, Ancillary Review of Books

“Militarized Global Apartheid does more than just describe the system and strategies that are in place to gate the North from the South.... [It] is not simply a description of violent border regimes, it is a challenge for all of us to reflect on our own relationship to them.” - Georgina Ramsay, PoLAR

"Besteman makes a laudable effort to diagnose our current and emerging international relations through extensive dialogue with anthropological literature on militarism, migration, and borders. . . . [T]his book contributes to a critical view of our recent history and future possibilities. I expect that its insights will guide a renewed understanding of globalization for many years, focusing strongly on military power relations between the global north and south." - José Hildo de Oliveira Filho, Anthropological Notebooks