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

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.

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

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