In a world where nuclear proliferation has rendered global conventional war unthinkable, economic sanctions and sabotage are likely to play a large role in twenty-first-century geopolitics. Rather than preventing conflict, Pericles’s sanctions in ancient Greece ultimately helped to trigger the Peloponnesian War.
当今世界，核扩散以使全球性常规战争不再具有现实可能性，经济制裁和经济破坏也许将在二十一世纪地缘政治中扮演重要角色。古希腊伯里克利的制裁并没有阻止冲突，反而最终引发了伯罗奔尼撒战争。我们只能希望，在二十一世纪，更聪明的头脑可以胜出，经济制裁将带来谈判而非暴力。