单项选择题

International community
Some people say the international community is only a fiction. Others say it is too elastic a concept to have any real meaning. Some say there are no internationally recognized norms, goals or fears on which to base such a community. Oped pages refer routinely to the "so called" international community. I believe these skepties are wrong. The international community does exist. It has an address. It has achievements to its credit.
When governments, urged along by civil society, come together to adopt a statute for the creation of an International Criminal Court, that is the international community at work for the rule of law. When we see an outpouring of international aid to the victims of earthquakes in Turkey and Greece, witch is the international community following its humanitarian impulse. When people come together to ress governments to relieve the world’s poorest countries from crushing debt burdens, that is the international community throwing its weight behind the cause of development. When the popular conscience, outraged at the carnage caused by land mines, obliges governments to adopt a convention banning those deadly weapons, that, too, is the international community in action.
There are many more examples of the international community at work, from east Timor to Kosovo, but there are important caveats. Too often the international community fails to do what is needed. It failed to prevent the genocide in Rwanda. In East Timor, it acted too late to save many hundreds of lives and thousands of homes from wanlon destruction. The international community has not done enough to help Africa at a time when Africa needs it most and most stands to benefit, And it allows nearly 3 billion people—almost half of all humanity to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth.
The international system for much of our century has been based on division and hard calculations of realpolitik. In the new century, we can and must do better. I do not mean to suggest that an ear of complete harmony is within our reach. Of course, interests and ideas will always conflict. But we can improve on this century’s dismal record. The international community is a "work in progress". Many strands of cooperation have asserted themselves over the years. We must now stitch them into a strong fabric of international community for an international era.
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