While the EU wrestles with problems of migration and integration, Russia is drifting away from a Eurocentric cultural and economic course toward a Eurasian alternative. And the United States – at least under President Barack Obama – has retreated into a kind of semi-isolation, leaving behind troubling zones of instability and unresolved crises.
这个时间还恰逢欧洲两部分都在寻找新的地缘政治乃至精神身份。欧盟正在与移民和一体化问题角力，而俄罗斯正在偏离欧洲中心文化和经济策略，倒向欧亚方案。而美国——至少在奥巴马治下——退回到一种半孤立状态，留下一摊动荡地区和未解决的危机。