A new history, by Christopher Clark, of the diplomatic prelude to that war is called, fittingly, The Sleepwalkers. The question for the US and East Asia’s leaders today is whether they will wake up and develop effective multilateral mechanisms for security cooperation before doing themselves serious harm.
导致一战的外交失策给了我们许多教训。克里斯托弗·克拉克（Christopher Clark）在讲述一战前外交形势的新历史著作中将其妙称为《梦游者》（The Sleepwalkers）。如今，美国和东亚领导人面临的问题是他们能不能在给自己造成严重伤害之前觉醒并找到有效的安全合作多边机制。