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The Butterfly Metaphor The Butterfly Metaphor
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Globalization and the Butterfly Effect Globalization and the Butterfly Effect
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September 11 and Beyond September 11 and Beyond
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American and Global Security American and Global Security
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Inviting Attack on Oil Facilities: Butterfly and Non-Butterfly Inviting Attack on Oil Facilities: Butterfly and Non-Butterfly
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Beyond the Butterfly: Weapons of Mass Destruction Beyond the Butterfly: Weapons of Mass Destruction
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Countering Terrorism under Globalization Countering Terrorism under Globalization
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7 How Globalization Amplifies the Terrorist Threat
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Published:September 2011
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Abstract
This chapter discusses how globalization generates nodes vulnerable to terrorist attacks and creates the potential that attacks will produce major consequences. It explains the butterfly effect, which refers to the idea that in dynamic nonlinear systems, a butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere which, in turn, ultimately generate or prevent a massive storm. Globalization can contribute to butterfly effects in two key ways. First, it does so by virtue of its interconnections across economic, political, and cultural space. Second, while interconnections produce cascading effects under certain conditions, these various effects are communicated to a regional and global audience via another aspect of globalization: communications. Thus, terrorism becomes a potentially more dangerous phenomenon because butterfly-type effects are arguably more likely under conditions of interconnectedness, as reflected in globalization.
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