Editor’s Introduction

Abstract

errorism is one of the major and troublesome issues of our times, an evil which affronts and challenges the very spirit of freedom." By itself, this assertion might be difficult to attribute to its author or, for that matter, to date. By itself, this claim might seem as apropos at the end of 2019 as in the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001. Here is a bit more from the same speaker and occasion: [A]s the world shrinks still further with the advances of technology and the growth of travel, it follows that the global village becomes more and more a reality.