Promoting a Singular Global Threat -- Terrorism Strategy of choice for world governance
14 February 2002 Promoting a Singular Global Threat -- Terrorism Strategy of choice for world governance - / - Introduction Complexity of abandoned approaches to world governance The promise of single-factor policy-making Need for a threat Single factor threats: past experiments Single factor threats: terrorism as threat of the moment Single factor threats: provisions for the future Avoidance of global social issues Learnings from personal strategic analogues Future prospects for viable alternatives Conclusion References Introduction The manner in which the 'war on terrorism' has been justified and developed calls for reflection on the use of singular threats as a preferred strategy in response to the many dilemmas of world governance. The past decade has seen much focused concern on the challenge of world governance in the light of the multiplicity of interdependent problems faced by society and the planet. This has been associated with the artic