历史已记录下诸如黑暗时代、文艺复兴、启蒙运动、镀金时代、兴旺的20世纪20年代和冷战等名称。不愿设想一个存在里根、戈尔巴乔夫和柏林墙的世界成为历史,这是可以理解的。可是,不稍稍进行预测,就不可能理解现状。我们既不可能将我们的现在与过去隔离,也不可能将现在与未来分开。因此,我们邀请了一些世界上最具挑战性的思想家分析现状,展望未来,理解我们业已进入的新时代,预见我们将通往何处,以及再给后冷战世界一个合适的命名。 ——《外交政策》编辑部 History has recorded such names as the Dark Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Gilded Age, the thriving 1920s and the Cold War. It is understandable not to envision a world in which Reagan, Gorbachev and the Berlin Wall existed. However, it is impossible to understand the status quo without making any predictions. It is impossible for us to isolate our present from the past nor to separate the present from the future. Therefore, we invite some of the world’s most challenging thinkers to analyze the status quo, look to the future, understand the new era we have entered, anticipate where we are going and give the post-Cold War world a proper nomenclature. - “Foreign Policy” Editorial Department