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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...