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Another new world order 另一个世界新秩序 The planet has been completely reshaped in the first decade of the 21st century, and Canada mustnt squander its opportunity to reposition在21世纪头10年，地球已被完全改造，加拿大不能浪费重新定位的机会。 As the ballad goes, “the times, they are a-changin’,” and so too is the context that shapes our national interests and our global relationships. In just 20 years we have gone from a bipolar world of two military, if not economic, superpowers, to a single-polar world of an economic, political and military hyper-power to today’s multipolar world with competing centres of economic and political power, and evolving military balances. It has also been an intellectual roller-coaster ride from Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History in the mid-1990s to Fareed Zakaria’s The Post-American World a short decade later. 歌曲有云，“时代变革在今朝，” 我们的国家利益和全球关系也在发生着巨变。短短20年间，地球从两个军事（而不是经济）超级大国主宰的两极世界，发展到经济、政治和军事超级霸权的单级世界，又迈入目前的经济和政治力量中心相互竞争、实现军事平衡的多级世界。也从20世纪90年代弗朗西斯·福山《历史的终结》中的智力过山车，进化到十年后里德·扎卡里亚所说的后美国世界。 Clearly, the first decade of the new millennium will cast a long shadow over the 21st century. It was a decade marked by jarring and unsettling events: Y2K; terrorist attacks; Enron and a host of other corporate debacles; horrific natural disasters showcased by the digital information age; the invasion of Iraq and the absence of weapons of mass destruction; the dot-com bust; and the global financial crisis. Cumulatively, these events have sapped public trust in leadership. Overwhelmingly, they have changed the public’s expectations for their governments. Paradoxically, they have created gaping fissures in the body politic about how best to meet these changed public expectations. 显然，新千年的头10年将在21世纪投下长长的阴影。其间充满着不和谐和令人不安的事件：千年虫、恐怖袭击、安然和大批公司倒地、数字化信息时代展示的可怕自然灾害、入侵伊拉克却未找到大规模杀伤性武器、互联网泡沫破灭，以及全球金融危机。种种事件累加，削弱了公众对领导力的信任。这些事件不可抗拒地改变了公众对政府的期望。矛盾的是，国民也因此对政府如何能更好地满足变化了的公众期望产生了意见分歧。 And while these very public events naturally captured the headlines, they represent only the tip of the proverbial ice