First, globalization may have delivered many benefits, but it has also eroded the capacity of societies to determine their own destinies. Many modern challenges – including tax avoidance, organized crime, cyber insecurity, terrorism, climate change, international migration, and financial flows, both licit and illicit – have one thing in common: the traditional instruments of a sovereign state have become inadequate to manage them.
首先，全球化带来了诸多好处，但也侵蚀了社会决定自己命运的能力。许多现代挑战——包括避税、有组织犯罪、网络不安全、恐怖主义、气候变化、国际移民和金融流动，不管是正当的还是非法的——有一个共同点：传统主权国家工具已不足以管理它们。