We thought connecting the world would bring lasting peace. Instead, it is driving us apart.
In the three decades since the end of the Cold War, global leaders have been integrating the world's economy, transport and communications, breaking down borders in the hope of making war impossible. In doing so, they have unwittingly created a formidable arsenal of weapons for new kinds of conflict and the motivation to keep fighting. Rising tensions in global politics are not a bump in the road - they are part of the paving.
Troublingly, we are now seeing rising conflict at every level, from individuals on social media all the way up to nation-states in entrenched stand-offs. The past decade has seen a new antagonism between the US and China; an inability to co-operate on global issues such as climate change or pandemic response; and a breakdown in the distinction between war and peace, as overseas troops are replaced by sanctions, cyberwar, and the threat of large migrant flows.

As a leading authority on international relations, Mark Leonard has been inside many of the rooms where our futures, at every level of society, are being decided - from the Facebook HQ and facial recognition labs in China to meetings in presidential palaces and at remote military installations. In seeking to understand the ways that globalisation has broken its fundamental promise to make our world safer and more prosperous, Leonard explores how we might wrest a more hopeful future from an age of unpeace.

我们以为连接世界会带来持久的和平。相反，它正在使我们分离。

在冷战结束后的三十年里，全球领导人一直在整合世界的经济、交通和通信，打破边界，希望使战争成为不可能。在这样做的过程中，他们不知不觉地为新型冲突创造了一个强大的武器库，并为继续战斗提供了动力。全球政治中不断加剧的紧张局势并不是道路上的颠簸--它们是铺路的一部分。

令人不安的是，我们现在看到各个层面的冲突都在上升，从社交媒体上的个人一直到根深蒂固的对峙中的民族国家。过去十年，美国和中国之间出现了新的对立；在气候变化或大流行病应对等全球问题上无法合作；战争与和平之间的区别被打破，因为海外军队被制裁、网络战争和大量移民潮的威胁所取代。

作为国际关系方面的权威人士，马克-伦纳德曾进入许多房间，在社会的各个层面决定我们的未来--从Facebook总部和中国的面部识别实验室到总统府和远程军事设施中的会议。在寻求了解全球化如何打破其使我们的世界更安全和更繁荣的基本承诺时，伦纳德探讨了我们如何从一个不和平的时代争取到一个更有希望的未来。

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