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Introduction

Every once in a while something happens, and suddenly everything seems to change—or, at least, everyone finally becomes aware that things are not the same anymore. The September 11 terrorist attack is such an event. While anti-American terrorism is nothing new, the fact that hitherto it usually took place abroad and primarily against military targets, made it feel distant and not relevant to everyday life. Not anymore. Now the implications of globalization, the decline of nation-states as self-contained entities, US vulnerability, the obsolescence of Cold War political categories, and the immense disparities—both material and spiritual—between advanced societies and premodern ones...