What if the berlin wall was never built

As they celebrated with champagne, music, and tears, Berliners began to literally tear down the wall with sledgehammers and chisels. Less than a month later, the GDR collapsed entirely, and in , Germany reunified.

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The young, the educated, the highly-trained. That's what was killing East Germany demographically before and it would only get worse. How does this reflect the political evolution of the US and what effect does that have across the rest of the world?

He knew that the fall of the wall would undermine the Soviet Union. President Trump is way beyond the Cold War. Building a new wall is his response to the growing sense of economic dislocation that segments of America, like Britain and other parts of Europe and the developed world, have experienced on the back of the rise of globalization, which was partly the result of the end of the Cold War but also the rise of China.

Have inflows of Mexican immigrants or immigrants through the Mexico border been the principal driver of economic insecurity? Construction site for a secondary border fence following the length of the primary border fence separating the US and Mexico in the San Diego in the US.

Photo: Getty Images. Politically how do these types of barriers compare to physical ones? You could argue that the Mediterranean Sea, and the European border forces operating within it, still act as a physical wall because they constitute a physical obstacle to migrants being able to move from the South across the Mediterranean Sea into Europe.

In this sense, you could argue that the Mediterranean Sea is a larger version of the Rio Grande between the US and Mexico which also incorporates physical barriers along its shores. I think the more interesting walls that are being built today are virtual walls such as regulatory walls to trade, or with the internet, new barriers are being built to digital communication which affect your capacity to access information.

The border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, and the presence of enforcement mechanisms along the border, has become a key issue in the Brexit negotiations. How much of the debate over this is about the symbolism of the border against its economic implications? The Irish border carries great symbolic importance because it reflects the reality of the separation of two sovereign states.

You would basically have an electronic surveillance system. No more than a few years after The huge sums they would need to spend in order to keep their new high-tech wall going would, I think, lead to the end in about In some ways it might have benefited West Germany to keep the East in business, because it would result in more cheap labour.

East Germany, from the s onwards, was a place where Western manufacturers had their work done cheap. In West Germany, back when I lived there, you could get hour film development done straight from your camera back in the days when you delivered it to a chemist. But they would actually ship it over the border to East Germany and ship it back again. That was true of textiles and other businesses. So, if I can imagine an East Germany, with this high-tech Berlin Wall still intact, I think it would be one that had basically become an economic colony of West Germany.

It would have reestablished a Stalinist regime to keep everybody quiet. The selling of political prisoners to the West was also an enormously profitable trade for the East, so that would probably have continued. In fact, there were rumours that they were arresting people just so they could make some income from selling them back.