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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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