Le début d'une ère post-westphalienne ?

Terrorism, involving different groups of people for different reasons, has always existed and will never disappear. But with the arrival of a world without frontiers there has come a kind of “dumping” at global level, and hence a lack of rules and a general laxity that favours all manner of factors of destruction.
How can we parry the grave dangers that arise from the increasing numbers of people who shamelessly take advantage of this situation, asks Kimon Valaskakis? The diplomatic system developed since the mid 17th century, which was based on the principle of sovereign states with well-defined territories, is ineffectual against the new global challenges (terrorism, international financial problems, global warming, etc.) and the actions of transnational businesses that disregard frontiers.
Kimon Valaskakis argues that we must not only “think globally” but create the means to act globally; this would require giving high priority to examining how to set up new bodies and procedures which would ensure more effective governance of the world and thereby avoid the uncontrolled excesses of globalization, which at present operates without rules or laws.