The causes and parties responsible for these failures are diverse, but there is one constant: in recent years, nationalistic, even xenophobic, rhetoric has intensified dramatically. Patriotism and sovereignty are now stressed ever more insistently, while expressions of distrust of “others” have appeared everywhere – even in the Arctic Ocean, where Canada and Russia are engaged in what one expert has called “Cold War lite.”
造成失败的原因和责任人多种多样，但有一个因素却从未改变过：那就是近年来民族主义，甚至是排外主义论调的愈演愈烈。人们越来越刻意地强调爱国和主权，随处可见不信任“他人”的表述——甚至远在北冰洋，加拿大和俄罗斯也正在进行一位专家所称的“简化版冷战。”