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On Violence and Terror

The 21st century has brought together two trends that have been long in the making: violence as a subliminal modus vivendi of postmodern societies, and terrorism as a global explosion of partisan war. The two trends intersected dramatically on September 11, 2001, when a small group of barely armed terrorists shook the confidence and threatened the security of the most powerful nation on earth. The terrorists made everybody harrowingly aware of those trends, and brutally unveiled an aspect of globalization that was occluded, if not ignored, in discussions about global society, which delved benefits and risks, not into devastating attacks....