ABSTRACT
There is a paradox about globalization: the very opportunities it offers – the free movement of money, people, goods and information – are harnessed by terrorists and organized criminals, so that we have a situation where today ‘money is raised in one country, used for training in the second, for procurement in a third and terrorist acts in a fourth,’ a global threat for which there is no real precedent – enemies that do not need great armies to put lives at risk, enemies without even a formal chain of command but can inspire imitators in the heart of our communities.
