But what about Africa, the forgotten continent that has been conspicuously absent from Obama’s hectic agenda? There, both the resilience of the local political culture and strategic imperatives are converging to define the limits of the West’s capacity to impose its values.
而非洲，这块显然被奥巴马忙碌的议程排除在外的被人遗忘的大陆又该何去何从？在这块大陆上，区域政治文化弹性和战略规则共同限定了西方把自身价值观强加于人的能力。