The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.

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

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

The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.

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.

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