Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.

Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed.

After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

Each murder is one too many.

Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style