Before our eyes, the post-Soviet international system in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia is being overthrown. Nineteenth-century concepts of international order, based on zero-sum balance-of-power considerations and spheres of interest, are threatening to supersede modern norms of national self-determination, the inviolability of borders, the rule of law, and the fundamental principles of democracy.
在我们眼里，东欧、高加索和中亚的后苏联时代国际体系正在被推翻。十九世纪的国际秩序概念——以零和实力平衡考虑和利益圈为基础——有可能正在取代国家自决权的现代范式、国界的不可侵犯性、法治精神以及民主的基本原则。