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看了一下全文,其实是在直球辱骂髪国和暗搓搓影射美国——
According to these criteria, several great-power contenders can be discounted. Some economically significant actors such as Germany and Japan lack the military capabilities, especially nuclear weapons, to be great powers.
When it comes to reach, Germany, Japan, Brazil, and Indonesia have largely regional military capabilities; some of them enjoy considerable global influence through their diplomatic services and overseas aid policies. Germany and Japan have substantial soft power, but Brazil and Indonesia do not. All four have shown themselves to be brittle in the past and thus lack the necessary resilience.
Despite the endorsement of many, India does not meet most of the criteria either. It has nuclear weapons and the world’s fifth- or sixth-largest economy, but New Delhi’s military reach is largely regional. India claims a reputation as a “world teacher,” but it understands this role in non-great-power terms. Given the country’s relative youth in its modern form, India’s resilience is hard to measure—but its propensity to suffer terrorist and communal violence and its persisting poverty suggests vulnerabilities.
France is hard to assess. It is a large economy and commands a nuclear arsenal more independent than that of Britain, but it has lost important parts of its sovereignty, such as control over its own borders and currency, to the European Union. Paris still enjoys a lot of influence in Africa and has a significant presence in the Indo-Pacific, but it is on the retreat in the former and challenged by anticolonial movements in the latter. France also enjoys a global brand distinct from the Anglo-Saxons, China, and Russia.
In terms of resilience, though, France has repeatedly experienced state collapse in the 19th and 20th centuries, most notably when it was overrun by Germany in 1940 and had to be re-constituted by the Anglo-Americans after the war. It is much more brittle than the United Kingdom.
What is clear is that the extent to which the great powers enjoy resources, reach, reputation and resilience, and the balance between these capabilities, varies considerably. No great power is configured quite like any other, and they differ considerably in capacity and vulnerabilities. It has always been thus. In the past, none of the great powers were exactly as strong as any other, and some were considerably weaker—for example, 18th-century Prussia and late 19th-century Austria-Hungary.
Likewise, the great powers of today differ considerably from each other both in terms of individual strengths and overall strength. Though the United States and China are economically and militarily far ahead of Russia and the United Kingdom, all four states have attributes that mark them out from the next rung of major actors on the world scene. There is also one country, France, whose great-power status is unclear.
This list—those it includes and those it leaves off—may take some by surprise. Seen historically, however, its consistency is remarkable. Although the balance between the actors has shifted considerably, this configuration of great powers would have been recognizable not merely to our grandparents but our great-grandparents. In all likelihood, it will remain so to our children and grandchildren.
根据这些标准,可以排除若干大国的竞争者。一些经济实力雄厚的国家,如德国和日本,缺乏成为大国的军事能力,尤其是核武器。
就影响力范围而言,德国、日本、巴西和印度尼西亚的军事能力主要局限于地区层面;其中部分国家虽通过外交服务和海外援助政策享有相当大的全球影响力。德国和日本拥有强大的软实力,但巴西和印度尼西亚则不然。这四个国家过去都曾表现出脆弱性,因此缺乏必要的韧性。
尽管获得许多人的认可,印度也未能满足大多数标准。印度虽拥有核武器且经济规模位居世界第五或第六,但新德里的军事影响力主要局限于地区层面。印度自诩为“世界导师”,但其对这一角色的理解仍停留在非大国的范畴内。鉴于该国现代国家形态相对年轻,其韧性难以衡量——但其频发的恐怖主义和族群暴力事件以及持续存在的贫困问题,都表明其存在脆弱性。
法国则难以评估。它经济体量庞大,且拥有比英国更独立的核武库,但已将主权的重要部分——如边境管控权和货币主权——让渡给了欧盟。巴黎在非洲仍享有很大影响力,并在印太地区拥有显著存在,但在非洲正处于退守状态,而在印太地区则面临反殖民运动的挑战。此外,法国拥有区别于盎格鲁-撒克逊国家、中国和俄罗斯的独特全球形象。
但在韧性方面,法国在19世纪和20世纪曾多次经历国家崩溃,最显著的例子是1940年被德国占领,战后不得不由英美两国协助重建。其国家韧性远不如英国。
显而易见的是,各大国在资源、影响力、声誉和韧性方面的优势程度,以及这些能力之间的平衡,存在很大差异。没有任何一个大国的构成完全与其他大国相同,它们在能力和脆弱性方面存在显著差异。情况一直如此。过去,没有任何一个大国的实力完全与其他大国相当,有些甚至明显较弱——例如18世纪的普鲁士和19世纪末的奥匈帝国。
同样,当今各大国无论在单项实力还是整体实力上都存在显著差异。尽管美国和中国在经济和军事上远超俄罗斯和英国,但这四个国家都具备使其区别于世界舞台上次级主要行为体的独特属性。此外,还有一个国家的大国地位尚不明确,那就是法国。
这份名单——无论是所包含的国家还是被排除在外的国家——可能会让一些人感到意外。但从历史角度来看,其连贯性却令人惊叹。尽管各国之间的力量平衡已发生显著变化,但这种大国格局不仅我们的祖父母辈,甚至我们的曾祖父母辈都能认得出来。极有可能,它对我们的子孙后代而言也将依然如此。 |
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