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In a transcript of a one-day roundtable at the U of Pavia on 10 Dec 2001, the participants (Pasquale Scaramozzino moderating, Pere Vilanova of the U of Barcelona, Giuseppe Iannini & Gianni Salvini of the U of Pavia, Sergio Romano of Corriere della Sera, Mario Deaglio of the U of Turin, Gianfranco Fabi of Sole 24 Ore, Giampaolo Calchi Novati, & Salvatore Veca) discussed the political consequences of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. Of particular interest to the participants were the effects on relations between the US & Russia, the People's Republic of China, & the Arab states. Also discussed was the prevailing concern about the effects of globalization. The participants worried about the increasing unilateralism of the current US administration, its relationship to NATO, the flailing economy, & whether it represents the emergence of a new type of economic cycle, the North-South divide & the New World Order, relations between East & West, viz, the West & the Islamic world, the threat of terrorism, etc. A. Siegel