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Authors Thierry Malleret and Erwann Michel-Kerjan, both risk-management academics, raise the issue of governance in the face of proliferating global risks, "phenomena that neither anyone nor any single entity can control alone, that have the ability to strike anywhere at any time and to spread with epidemic speed, [that] can potentially provoke large scale destabilization and inflict catastrophic economic losses."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111406H.shtml