Ulrich Beck

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.

Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.

This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions.

When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans.

We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.

You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.

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

Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.

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

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

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