Santos, Rui Teixeira2004Santos , R T 2004 , ' Uma proposta para a Paz passa pelo alargamento da UE : terá a Europa coragem para levar a União até á África Ocidental? ' , Campus Social : Revista Lusófona de Ciências Sociais .1645-9857Campus Social : Revista Lusófona de Ciências SociaisIn the same manner that the struggle of classes, born in the industrial revolution in the XVII and XVIII century, was neither a confrontation nor an arrangement between the working class and the bourgeois. Today, in globalization, the cultural conflicts are not solved through confrontation or from the dialogue between civilizations. The broadening of the European Union is much more urgent than its deepening. It many imply an European Union at various velocities, but it may be the answer to terrorism. There must be courage to take the European borders beyond Turkey and even beyond the Middle East and Magreb. It is time to think of broadening it to include Western Africa, where Al Qaeda is moving in.application/pdfporopenAccessCIÊNCIA POLÍTICAGEOPOLÍTICAHISTÓRIA DA DEMOCRACIATERRORISMOÁFRICAEUROPAPOLITICAL SCIENCEGEOPOLITICSHISTORY OF DEMOCRACYTERRORISMAFRICAEUROPEarticle