The bottom chessboard includes transnational relations outside the control of governments – everything from drugs to infectious diseases to climate change to terrorism. On this board, power is chaotically distributed among non-state actors, and it makes no sense to call this world either uni-polar or multipolar.
象棋棋盘最底层包括政府控制以外的跨国关系，这包括毒品、传染病、气候变化乃至恐怖主义等等。在这一层面，实力混乱地分配于非国家参与者之间，把这一世界称为单级或者多极都是毫无意义的。