Contrary to expectations, the collapse of communism did not bolster international cooperation. On the contrary, all international negotiations – on global warming, financial regulation, and nuclear disarmament (despite the efforts of US President Barack Obama and former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to conclude a bilateral nuclear-disarmament agreement) – launched since the end of the twentieth century have failed.
与预期相反，共产主义的崩溃并未增进国际合作。相反，20世纪末以来的所有国际谈判——关于全球变暖、金融监管和核裁军（尽管美国总统奥巴马和前俄罗斯总统梅德韦杰夫达成了双边核裁军协定）等问题皆是如此——都失败了。