When international cooperation does “succeed,” it spawns rules that are either toothless or reflect the preferences of only the more powerful states. The Basle rules on capital requirements and the World Trade Organization’s rules on subsidies, intellectual property, and investment measures typify this kind of overreaching.
我们经常将国际合作浪费在不切实际的目标上，最终却只在主要国家间获得最微不足道的成果。即便国际合作真的“成功”，由此产生的规则要么不起作用，要么只反应大国的需求。资本要求领域的巴塞尔规则和世贸组织的补贴、知识产权和投资策略规定最能反应此类越俎代庖。支持而非损害国内民主制度可以令全球化的效率及合法性得到增强。