Globalization's walls

Albert Levy, writing in the French newspaper Liberation (translation via Truthout):

We are witnessing a paradox: while globalization presents itself as a process of opening world onto world, while with the development of the Web, the circulation of information no longer has any limit and operates at the speed of light, walls and barriers are going up to brake this dynamic. Everything is taking place as though this phenomenon of opening - too wide, too fast - brings along in its wake, as a reaction, a process of closing. According to German sociologist Georg Simmel, we are in a dialectical conflict situation (opening versus closing) that structures our social life. Reclaiming the paradox of the republican duo of freedom and equality, Simmel emphasized the antagonism of these two notions and demonstrated that the tension between them is impassable, thus justifying the introduction of a third notion: "Perhaps it was because people instinctively understood the difficulty of that state of affairs that they joined a third demand to those for freedom and equality: that of fraternity." Today, as we are faced with a major conflictual tension - the opposition between globalization and protection - what new demand must we introduce to resolve this contradiction: solidarity?