This book is essential for officials involved in identifying and profiling the scope and nature of any jihadi terror threat. It is a compendium of academic research and the experience of hands-on counter-terrorism experts.
Assessing 9/11
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More than a decade after al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks on US soil, it becomes easier to reflect on what this event has meant for global politics.
In memoriam Pierre Harmel (1911-2009)
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On 11 March 2009 Pierre Harmel passed away. His tenure as Belgian foreign minister (1966-1973) coincided with the burgeoning East-West detente, in which he himself took no small part. Replying to those who linked him with a ‘doctrine’, he invariably responded: ‘Je ne suis pas l’homme d’une doctrine. Je suis l’homme d’une politique’.
Rik CoolsaetComments at the pre-launch of the World Bank’s Global Economic Propects 2007
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Every year, the Bank provides us with its Global Economic Prospects, drawing our attention on
themes that will come at the international agenda in the next few years. It rightly labels the Bank as the
innovative vanguard of global foresight. We all know how difficult prediction is, especially if it\’s
about the future…
The shared heritage of globalisation(s) – Old and New
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The times we’re living in, are not unique. Globalisation is old news indeed. It is fascinating to go back in time and to look how each time the world shrank, the same words and ideas of one common heritage of mankind appear – to wither away when the wave of globalisation slowed down or was reversed.
9/11 – Five Years Later: The Age of Rage
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What are the main strands in the mood of today’s world citizen? He feels lost and ill at ease in the complex world that surrounds him. And, secondly, he resents the state of the world as fundamentally lopsided. Global uneasiness leads to polarisation. Global inequity stimulates radicalisation.
Security is not getting worse
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Rik Coolsaet is one of the opening speakers of the European Forum Alpbach. For ‘Alpbach News’ he talks about Misper¬ceptions, religious revivals, Al-Qaeda and security questions of today’s world.
Homo Sapiens Adrift
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The world is nót flat. The world is caught up in a white water rafting race. Some of the passengers fall
overboard. Others row with all their might. Many close their eyes and grope for something to hold on
to.
When dignity is at stake
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The escalating international row over a dozen cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten looks to many Europeans as an exaggerated reaction by hypersensitive Muslims.
Rik Coolsaet (New York Times)Muslims Real Victims of Terror
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The author of “Al Qaeda, the Myth” Prof. Rik Colsaet spoke to Zaman recently. Colsaet strongly opposes the term “Islamic terror”. Asking the question, “Islam has existed for 1,400 years, but why are we facing this type of terror just now?” he urges the West to focus on the roots of terror.
Rik Coolsaet (Zaman.com)