今日经济的一体化和政治的分散化特点将持续和发展至下一世纪。21世纪的世界将是充分体现这两大特点的世界。届时世界将是一个象今日欧共体一样的统一大市场,甚至可能有统一的货币和统一的金融管理机构。在另一方面,几百甚至上千的政治地区而不是国家将星罗棋布地点缀着地球。 这样测想下的21世纪就会出现两个问 Today’s economic integration and political decentralization will continue and develop into the next century. The world of the 21st century will be a world that fully embodies these two characteristics. The world will then be a unified market like today’s EC, with perhaps even a single currency and a unified financial management body. On the other hand, hundreds or even thousands of political regions, rather than nations, dot the globe. Two questions arise in the 21st century under this test