You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.