Part III
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Part III, The Threshold
The Threshold
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About this section
Part III is where the book turns from what intelligence is to what must now be decided about it. Its three chapters ask what is converging, where the leverage to govern it lies and what relationship the answer calls for, and the interlude that closes the part rests those answers on a covenant.
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