Of course, the ambition today cannot be to recreate that world (or to reestablish an anachronistic Westphalian order of religious separation), but rather to devise a new order predicated on different assumptions. Indeed, one of the keys to our current global disorder is that, in contrast to the Congress of Vienna – or, for that matter, the parties of 1648 – the international system’s main actors are not united by a common will to defend the status quo.
当然，今天我们不可能拥有重建彼时世界（或重建成为时代错误的宗教分裂威斯特伐利亚秩序）的雄心，而拥有建立脱胎于不同假设的新秩序的雄心。事实上，眼下全球失序的一个关键因素是，与维也纳会议——或者说1648年的各方——相反，国际体系的主要行动方没有因为捍卫现状的共同意愿联合起来。