Here too, we have become used to a permanent emergency: the scans at every airport, the occasional sight of someone being removed from a plane, the security systems that scan our emails and data transfers, the sense that 9/11 has created a global security archipelago beyond oversight or control.
Patrice Caine, Thales's chairman and CEO, said the pair's aim is to create a global leader in digital security.
They are also trying to create a global electronic network of customs and passport records, while trying to keep those security measures from unduly disrupting trade and travel.
But many of the critical nuances and deals, little known today, that FDR was bringing to bear in order to create a sustainable global security architecture imbued with more than a modicum of justice, did not live on.
But the Cold War which ensued after his death -- he died just as he was about to open his long-planned United Nations founding conference in San Francisco to create a sustainable global security architecture based on his "Four Freedoms" (freedoms of expression and worship, freedoms from want and fear) -- was decidedly not his idea.
World leaders will gather in Washington, D.C., on March 31-April 1 to address the threat of nuclear terrorism and steps toward creating a global nuclear-security system to prevent it.
World leaders gathered in Washington, D.C., on March 31-April 1 to address the threat of nuclear terrorism and steps toward creating a global nuclear-security system to prevent it.
It is comforting to think that U.S.-Russian negotiations might have helped us "move beyond Cold War nuclear postures," as the president said recently in Berlin, but creating a new global security commons that reflects current realities means that the concerns and outlooks of other nations will have to be an important part of the process.
