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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.

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Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.

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

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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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Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

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But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war.

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And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view.

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And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Sociologist

Born: May 15th, 1944

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