Introduction
· September 11, 2001 has relieved us of the need to sensitize the public to emerging terrorist threats or developing theories regarding terrorist aims and methods.
Unfortunately, we have been able to see the concrete reality of world chaos, and every one of us has been able to watch it on live television.
·Time for doubt and calculation has passed. It's time to reflect on how best to provide ourselves the instruments for knowledge, thought and action.
The goal now is to designate the enemy. This is a `regalian prerogative` (one of those prerogatives reserved exclusively to the state), which means it is the exclusive role of governments, and to know who this enemy is.
This implies analyzing world disorder, defining the current criminal reality. That especially implies clearing the horizon where the new challenges appear, and thinking in terms of early detection and action.
·In this world chaos, this anarchistic state of the world, it has become increasingly difficult to designate and know the enemy because of its new nature. The enemy is less and less a State, with the exception, for instance of the would be conflict between India and Pakistan, less and less a definite entity characterized by a territory, a population and a government ; the enemy consists more and more of fuzzy entities the knowledge of which necessitates much greater attention.
·One can allege that in themselves, these threats are not really new in their manifestations, their methods, their essence. On the other hand we consider that they are new because of the mixture which makes their nature change from a chemical point of view.
This is this new menace that we are going to try and analyze now. In three points: first define concepts, second, give examples and third make short proposals to fight back.