But, beyond the absence of a referee, another issue looms: the wave of globalization that followed the end of the Cold War has, paradoxically, accelerated fragmentation, affecting democratic and non-democratic countries alike. From the collapse of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia’s violent self-destruction, and Czechoslovakia’s peaceful divorce to today’s centrifugal pressures in Europe, the West, and the major emerging countries, fragmentation has been fundamental to international relations in recent decades.
但是，除了缺少仲裁者，还有另一个问题：随冷战结束而发生的全球化浪潮有一个悖论，它加速了分裂，影响着民主和非民主国家。从苏联解体、南斯拉夫的暴力自我毁灭和捷克斯洛伐克的和平分手到如今欧洲、西方和主要新兴国家的离心之势，分裂一直是近几十年来国际关系的基本旋律。