So it is today, to some degree, with Pax Americana – a kind of imperial world order that was never a formal empire. Compared to most previous empires, it was relatively benign, though it is too easily forgotten how often the leader of the “Free World” subverted elected leaders and supported dictators, as in Chile, South Korea, El Salvador, Argentina, Indonesia, Guatemala, and so on.
从某种程度上讲，今天的美式和平亦然，这是一种不以正式帝国面貌出现的帝国主义世界秩序。与大部分昔日帝国相比，美式和平相对温和，尽管人们经常忘记“自由世界”领袖是如何经常颠覆民选领导人、扶持独裁者的，智利、韩国、萨尔瓦多、阿根廷、印度尼西亚、危地马拉等国都有过这种经历。