Beyond Terror: The Truth About the Real Threats to Our World
Beyond Terror: The Truth About the Real Threats to Our World – Review
About to board an intercontinental flight, I spied this neat little book from the Oxford Research Group in the bookstore and promptly purchased it. BEYOND TERROR is based on Global Responses to Global Threats: Sustainable Security for the 21st Century, a nearly two year research project aimed at accurately assessing the numerous threats to international security and functional responses to those threats. The conclusion of the research project outlines a various idea of the major threats that we all face, rather than terrorism; namely the main threats to international security go from four interconnected trends: Climate Change Competition over Resources Marginalisation of the Majority World Global Militarisation I especially liked the comments considering the way forward to create international security, being not about creating solutions – we already have these. The way forward is about mainly cultivating the political will to IMPLEMENT the solutions. Definitely food for previously thought, and at around 120 leaves of A5 size, a good way to absorb a “synopsis” of the new research, plus plenty of websites and further reference sources listed in the footnotes.