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

Electronic communication makes possible what has previously been excluded: namely, active, simultaneous and reciprocal contact between individuals across all frontiers constituted by countries, religions and continents.

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

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

Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.

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

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.