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The "terrorism" phenomenon is abaut to change. Having originally been a problem of internal security when, for instance, looking at the assassination attempt by Palestinian terrorists an Israeli athletes during the 1974 Olympic Games in Munich, this matter has taken on a new dimension since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the latest, as was repeatedly mentioned already. At the same time it has become apparent in a very drastic way that modern combating of terrorism can no longer be effected by use of the resources of internal security. In future, fighting terror will increasingly become part of the tasks of modern armed forces, a task which within the scope of globalization can be tackled only in combination with respective partners. (Europ Sicherheit / SWP)

In retrospect, significant parallels can be drawn between the International Year of Languages 2008, which was initiated by the United Nations General Assembly and was coordinated by UNESCO, and the European Year of Languages 2001, which was a joint initiative of the Council of Europe and the European Union. In both cases 'the Year' passed with little public notice, and ended with the insight that a shared interest in languages by no means goes hand in hand with common views on language policy. Moreover, the status in the education systems of mother tongues on the one hand and foreign languages or trans-regional linguae francae on the other was discussed intensely in both instances. Against the background of the current debate on the influence of international educational organisations on national educational systems and concepts, the present article asks whether UNESCO has a specific role to play in the area of language education, and what (eurocentrically determined) blindspots in language education concepts become visible when one looks beyond the borders of Europe.

To determine what legal instruments need to be formulated and institutions created to manage a global commons, it is first necessary to investigate the various functions that the proposed management regime or regimes are to carry out. This article considers what functions might be assigned to an international regime to manage the threat of climatic change resulting from the "greenhouse effect. " It then examines what instruments would be required to initiate the regime and what other instruments it may be expected to create as well as what institutions would be required to carry out the various processes. These requirements in terms of legal instruments and institutions would be essentially the same whether it is decided to establish a single regime to manage all global commons or, for practical or political reasons, to have separate regimes- for example, for the atmosphere, for space, for the seas, for land-based activities, and for the Antarctic.