The unification of the European Community in 1992 is rapidly approaching, the reunification of East and West Germany is just around the corner, and the spread of democracy and free enterprise in East Europe has changed the bipolar view of the world of the past.
歐洲共同體整合在望，東、西德統一，亦是箭在弦上，而東歐的政治民主化、經濟自由化的洪流，更改變了過去「二分法」的世界觀。