Indeed, for all the fashionable predictions that China, India, or Brazil will surpass the United States in the coming decades, the greatest threats may come from modern barbarians and non-state actors. In an information-based world of cyber-insecurity, power diffusion may be a greater threat than power transition.
事实上，相对于那些预言中国，印度或者巴西将在未来几十年内压倒美国的时髦论调，真正的威胁其实来自那些当代的“野蛮人”以及非国家参与者。在这个缺乏网络安全的信息化世界上，权力的扩散要比转移威胁更大。