Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.

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

In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

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

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.

We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.