The big question today is whether all these alternative approaches can add up to more than a bit of desperate tinkering around the edges. Standard international-relations thinking does not even entertain the question, and those conventional ways of seeing the world have blinded us to looking at this crucial question.
如今的大问题是，这些替代性手段是否可以要比绝望地在边缘运作要有效。标准的国际关系思维甚至并不考虑这一问题，而传统观察世界的方法阻碍我们看到这一关键问题所在。