NEW YORK – Any look back at 2012 would necessarily focus on three parts of the world: the eurozone, with its seemingly endless financial uncertainties; the Middle East, with its many upheavals, including, but hardly limited to, the Muslim Brotherhood’s accession to power in Egypt and Syria’s savage civil war, which has already claimed more than 60,000 lives; and the Asia-Pacific region, with its rising nationalism and political tensions after decades of being defined almost exclusively by extraordinary economic growth amid considerable political calm.
纽约——回顾2012年注定要关注世界三大区域：欧元区以及似乎无休无止的金融动荡；中东剧变，包括但不限于穆斯林兄弟会在埃及执政和已经夺去60,000多人生命的野蛮叙利亚内战；还有亚太地区，在经历数十年异乎寻常的经济增长和政治平静后，民族主义和政治紧张局势逐渐抬头。