“破碎地带”:当代国际关系的地理枢纽

Shattered Area": the Geographical Pivot of Contemporary International Relation

“破碎地带”是指从巴尔干半岛经中东、克什米尔地区、喜马拉雅山南麓直到东南亚的一条斜贯欧亚大陆南部的地带。这一地带民族众多 ,各种宗教、教派纷繁复杂 ,是世界主要文明交汇与碰撞的地方。同时这一地带国家林立 ,且各国大小不同、强弱迥异、贫富悬殊。这一地带处于沟通海陆的战略要地 ,历来还是世界各大国竞相争夺的焦点。冷战以后 ,世界各大国追求国家安全和争夺自然资源的活动更加复杂。经济全球化所带来的深层次矛盾在这里不断集中并加深 ,使之成为动荡之地和恐怖主义等各种全球性问题的发源地。因此 ,这一“破碎地带”是解读当今国际关系发展演变的关键之所在。

Shattered Area', which refers to a slim area stretching from the Balkan Peninsula to Southeast Asia, including the Middle East, Kashmir, southern slope area of Himalayan Mountain, is a pivot that gathers all the essential factors and disputes that affect the contemporary international relations. Acrossing the Euro-Asian Continent, it is the most complicated district where all kinds of religions, sects, and ethnic groups scatter and co-exist together, all major world civilizations collide with each other, the largest and most advanced and wealthy nations of the world co-exist within this small, the most backward and poorest countries in the world, and where all the major powers of the world compete and confront with each other for this region's obvious and potential strategic values. And of course, in the future this area will still become a confrontation line between the value of western civilizations represented by the United States and the value of non-Western civilizations represented by Russia and China. At the same time, it will become a hot spot gathering all the major contradictions and disputes in the world and a key area from which all the major turbulence and turmoil of the world is originated.