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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.