An ninh quốc gia trong thời đại mới Liên Xô trên thế giới là tương đối không thay đổi trên bề mặt chính trị của nó. Hai siêu cường và liên minh của họ vật lộn lợi thế với sự đe dọa của hủy diệt hạt nhân giữ các cuộc thi trong phạm vi giới hạn (mặc dù, như chúng ta sẽ thấy, hầu như không). | 28 National Security in the New Age Soviet Union the world was relatively unchanging on its political surface. The two superpowers and their alliances grappled for advantage with the threat of nuclear annihilation keeping the contest within bounds although as we shall see only barely . But underneath the surface great changes were in the making. The sudden collapse of the Soviet Union issued in a new world in which the new currents suddenly broke to the surface and flowed more strongly. There is a current of economic advance in east Asia - the Asian economic miracle that is real and of enormous significance thrusting China to the forefront of geopolitics there is a current of revolution in the Arab world that has now drawn much of the world into its ferment and to which we refer as terrorism there is a current of American economic technological and military leadership that make it the sole superpower there is a current of moral and economic weakening that suddenly has left Russia fractured but strongly armed and there is a current of finished business that left the close alliance between the United States and Western Europe against the Soviets obsolete. These currents now racing along the surface of the international order bring with them impatient demands for change. Rising powers insist on recognition new aspirations demand to be satisfied. Yet there is in international relations an enormous inertia. Change is often accompanied by turmoil but the international system seeks quietude. It is a principle of today s international community advanced by its primarily European advocates that the avoidance of war is the central objective of the system. But where change is necessary can peaceful means alone accommodate it and if there is no risk of war will any advantage of importance be relinquished to a current have-not Hence our focus on avoiding war is coupled with an implicit support for the status quo. Yet the world is changing very much. Some nations are growing and
