Samuel Huntington must be laughing in his grave. More than a decade ago the prescient political scientist popularised the term Davos Man. This was the cosmopolitan proponent of “transnationalism” who dreamt of a world in which borders would disappear, states would be obsolete, and all would be governed by elections and markets. Globalisation, to him, was not just about economic interconnectedness but a universal vision encompassing political governance, international relations and social values.
塞繆爾?亨廷頓(Samuel Huntington)一定正在墳墓中笑。十多年前,這位頗有先見的政治學家普及了“達沃斯人”(Davos Man)一詞。達沃斯人是“跨國主義”的擁護者,他們見多識廣,夢想一個這樣的世界:國界消失、國家成為過去式,一切由選舉和市場支配。在達沃斯人看來,全球化不只是經濟互聯互通,還是包含政治治理、國際關系和社會價值觀的普遍愿景。