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

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

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.

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.

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