Even in Europe, where regional institutions are comparatively strong, it is national interest and national policymakers, largely in the person of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who have dominated policymaking. Had Merkel been less enamored of austerity for Europe’s debt-distressed countries, and had she managed to convince her domestic electorate of the need for a different approach, the eurozone crisis would have played out quite differently.
即便是在区域性机构势力相对强大的欧洲，主宰政策制定的还是国家利益和各国国内的政策制定者(很大程度上就是德国总理默克尔本人)。倘若默克尔不是那么着迷于对欧洲高负债国家采取紧缩政策，又如果她能说服自己的选民们接受另一种措施的话，欧元区的危机将都会以一种截然不同的形式发展。