Indeed, even before the steep climb in grain prices in 2008, the number of failing states was expanding.
事实上，甚至在2008年粮食价格急剧攀升之前，衰落的国家数量就已经在扩大。
In the 20th century the main threat to international security was superpower conflict; today it is failing states.
20世纪，国际安全的主要威胁是超级大国之间的冲突，而如今的主要威胁是国家的衰落。
Strategists have worried about failing states ever since the end of the cold war.
自冷战结束之后，战略家们就对处于衰败的国家忧心忡忡。
The phenomenon of weak and failing states is not new, but the danger they now pose is unparalleled.
弱国和衰败国家并非新出现的现象，但这些国家造成的危险则前所未有。
China's neighbors are a rich and powerful Japan, rising South Korea and Vietnam, giant India and Russia, and a host of failed or failing states in Central and Southeast Asia.
中国的近邻则有富强的日本、上升中的韩国和越南、庞大的俄罗斯和印度以及一干已失败或正在败落的中、东南亚国家。
The people of the Horn are stuck underfoot between failing states, Western diplomats, journalists and donors, none of whom provide long-term sustainable solutions for the region.
好望角人民被无法实现的承诺束缚住了手脚，没有哪个西方外交官，记者和捐赠人给这个地区提出过稳定的长期解决方案。
Four out of five schools in the United States were labeled as failing under the No Child Left Behind Act.
在《不让一个孩子掉队法案》的标准下五分之四的美国学校都被贴上了失败的标签。
So here's a proposal: Maybe we can formulate a new kind of failing-states policy, one to help the deserving states, those that can be helped, and minimize the harm from the others.
所有这里有个提议：也许我们应当形成一个新的针对失败国家的政策，只能帮助那些需要帮助的国家，那些值得帮助，而且能将别人的伤害最小化的国家。
So here's a proposal: Maybe we can formulate a new kind of failing-states policy, one to help the deserving states, those that can be helped, and minimize the harm from the others.
所有这里有个提议：也许我们应当形成一个新的针对失败国家的政策，只能帮助那些需要帮助的国家，那些值得帮助，而且能将别人的伤害最小化的国家。
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