The threat comes not from some soil that can be invaded or occupied, but from within the globalized Web in which we are all today entangled.
Yet while raising more taxes from the winners in the globalized economy is a start, and may help us dig out of our immediate fiscal hole, it is unlikely to be enough to address our long-term needs.
If one thing stands out from 9/11, it's the fact that the terrorists originated from the least globalized, least open, least integrated corners of the world: namely, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Afghanistan and northwest Pakistan.
Increased immigration and mixing of populations, due to the globalized economy resulting from the increased migratory flow, sets legal problems of various orders, with increasing importance of determining the chronological age of children, youths and young adults.
But the United States would not be immune from oil shocks that could still jolt the globalized economy and send pump prices in the United States soaring, and few analysts predict the United States will turn away from the Middle East.
The results from the tensile test have only showed the globalized mechanical properties of composites and their localized elastic modulus distribution has been neglected.
Istanbul itself — from its nightclubs to its mosques — encapsulates the tensions of the globalized community.
Almost two years ago, Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, warned that suspicion of the globalized economy made it "fragile and vulnerable to backlash from all the -isms of our post-cold-war world: protectionism, populism, ethnic chauvinism, fanaticism and terrorism".
This is because, while Syrnikov was recovering techniques and flavors from before the Revolution, the rest of the country was being propelled into the globalized world of the twenty-first century.
But Japanese business and its economy have not made the adjustment to the globalized world.
