Introduction

Abstract

The twenty-first century had hardly put its fledgling year behind it when the promise of its possibilities, so endlessly recapitulated at the millennium's turn, was shattered. The television images of two huge Boeing jets lumbering at low altitude across the skyline of a bright Manhattan morning-bellies full of baleful fuel, and ripping into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, symbols of New York's global stature, and the towers collapsing in the inferno of a towering rage-were replayed endlessly across our planet, imprinting indelible memories of random mayhem and sudden death, as the once unthinkable became an instant reality. Copyright © 2006 by the John W. McCormack School of Policy Studies. All rights reserved.