Globalisation seems to be interrupting the history of borders, which has been in progress for almost 1,000 years. Interpretations which are not based on the spatial limits and determinations of borders are spreading in social sciences, policies and everyday language, and post-modern thinking seems to gain nourishment from this. However, there is something which fails to convince in this perspective because it is not explained by a reduction in borders and in their dynamics on international borders between states and on the borders between the different areas in which political authority acts. The effects of globalisation on borders are not all in the same direction. They do not all move towards abolishing them, breaking them down and reducing them. We must think about who draws or redraws borders and rediscover the role of professional intellectuals (sometimes also politicians) in proposing and creating distinctions as sources of meaning. Borders, real or metaphorical, will be essential for these distinctions. The history of borders has not come to a halt.
Keywords: Globalisation; borders; distinctions