2015考研英语阅读美国在衰落吗_大学英语阅读

2015考研英语阅读美国在衰落吗

　　布雷默是一家政治风险咨询机构欧亚集团的创始人，该机构专门从事大的战略思想研究。他的前一本书主要追述了发展中国家从专制独裁到民主的转变以及国有资本主义的增长。而这本《各自为战》进入了一个更加拥挤的领域。已经有无数本专著和论文在探究美国衰落或者可能衰落可能会带来的结果，其中好的著作要么有创新的视角要么在原始材料方面比较突出。但是很不幸，《各自为战》这两方面都没有做到。作者花了大量的篇幅描述全球问题的冲突，从网络空间到水资源短缺，但是这些论述大部分只是对已经报道过的文章和传统观点进行了重新处理。它们唯一的用处只是给布雷默机会让他重复了一个观点，即在G零世界中这些冲突都不可能自上而下得到解决。

　　Mr Bremmer is certainly right that a world without America s global leadership is a moredangerous place, but he overstates his case. Even when it stood alone as the world ssuperpower, America struggled to impose its will. In 1993 it pulled its troops out of Somaliawhen murderous warlords foiled its attempts to deliver food relief to the starving country.The global groups that Mr Bremmer imagines once ran the world were seldom thateffective. The G7 occasionally influenced the direction of the dollar or the relationsbetween rich countries and the emerging markets, but more often it issued anodyne,forgettable communiqus.