Their strategic watchwords are national rivalry, balance, and hegemony – concepts that offer no solution for the future of the region’s nations and states. Intraregional economic cooperation, which is essential to achieving sustained growth and social development, much less a regional security framework to ensure peace and stability, remains an alien idea.
中东地区多数政治精英今天仍受到强权政治和十九世纪主权观念造就的世界观的束缚。他们的战略口号是国家竞争、平衡和霸权——这些概念无法造就地区民族和国家未来的前途。迄今为止他们依然对实现持续增长和社会发展、以及确保和平稳定的地区安全架构所必不可少的区域经济合作概念非常生疏。