They are either too cynical or timid in their vision of the world, or they have others priorities, or both. They probably contemplate with barely disguised pleasure the difficulties currently encountered by the US in Iraq and elsewhere, but they do not feel any sense of a “compensating responsibility” for global stability.
如果与传统的戴高乐主义观念相反，多极世界并未带来稳定，而是产生混乱，那么，这一结果有两个原因。首先，主要的新兴国家中国、俄罗斯以及印度还没有准备、不愿意甚至是无力发挥稳定化的国际作用。它们对于世界的观念要么过于玩世不恭，要么谨小慎微，或者它们还有其他优先事项，或者两者兼而有之。它们可能窃喜于美国在伊拉克和世界其他地方遭遇的困境，但是它们并不对全球稳定感到有任何的”补偿性责任“。它们对共同利益并不热衷。它们在国家自我意识以及民族利益上难以自拔，无瑕顾及他人。