We have reached the end of an economic period, that of western-led globalisation, and a geopolitical one — the post-cold war “unipolar moment”. This is what I argued almost exactly a year ago. The question was whether the world would experience an unravelling of the US-created, post-second world war liberal order into deglobalisation and conflict, or a resurgence of co-operation. A year into the presidency of Donald Trump, we should return to this point. In brief, unravelling is even more likely.
我們已經來到了西方主導的全球化經濟時代和冷戰后“單極時刻”地緣政治時代的終點。這正是我一年前說過的。問題在于,這個世界將經歷美國打造的二戰后自由秩序的瓦解,從而進入去全球化和沖突時代,還是走向一個合作復興的時代。唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)擔任美國總統一年后,我們應該回顧這一問題。簡單地說,瓦解的可能性甚至更大。