Technology and economic development are proliferating across Asia and the developing world, while the spread of literacy and political awareness during the past century made national self-determination by far the dominant ideology of our age, leading to the end of colonialism. Nationalism continues to produce powerful political “antibodies” to American and European meddling in other countries’ internal affairs.
了解个中原因需要长期关注地缘政治，特别是美国和欧洲全球霸权的逐步衰落。亚洲和发展中世界正在经历技术和经济的快速发展，过去一百年间文化和政治觉悟的迅速普及已经使国家自主成为我们这个时代不可动摇的信念，结束了殖民主义的统治。民族主义还催生了反对美国和欧洲强权的“抗体”，不再允许发达国家干涉其它国家的内部事务。