Several US presidents have proclaimed a new world order. Today most of us remember only the one that George HW Bush called for at the end of the cold war. “That new world order is struggling to be born — a world quite different to the one we’ve known,” said Bush Senior in 1990. Minus the Soviet Union, it was in fact roughly the same one we had known for the previous half-century. With a few ups and downs, Pax Americana held for about another decade.
历史上,多位美国总统都宣告过新世界秩序的到来。但如今,我们大多数人只能记得老布什(George HW Bush)在冷战结束时呼吁的新世界秩序。1990年,老布什称:“新的世界秩序正在艰难形成——一个与我们了解的世界完全不同的世界。”除了没有苏联,这个新世界秩序实际上和我们在之前半个世纪知晓的世界几乎一样。几经兴衰,美国治下的和平(Pax Americana)又维持了大概10年。