Global (In-)Security

The “golden age of security”, as the Austrian writer Stefan Zweigcharacterised the time before the First World War, ended justover 100 years ago. After the atrocities of two world wars and theend of the so-called Cold War, many hoped that the cessation ofthe East-West conflict would herald the beginning of a new era ofsecurity – but those remaining hopes were shattered no later thanthe terrorist attacks of 9/11.