如果一个单极世界格局中的霸主国家醉心于单边主义政策，我们指望什么力量来制约他？吉米•卡特的这本书至少给了我们一点希望。"上帝的归上帝，恺撒的归恺撒"历来被认为是西方思想传统，而卡特这本书却似乎在全力论证一个古老的东方儒家命题：得道多助、失道寡助。尽管他是站在基督教立场上切入对道德问题的讨论，但是其批判和反思对全球化背景下的道德滑坡现象都有深刻意义。这不是一本时政评论集，而是一本有分量的思想著述，代表了美国精英文化中的反思传统和知识分子良心。If the hegemon idolizes unilateral policies in a unipolar global pattern, what can we rely on to restrain it? At least, this book by Jimmy Carter shows us some hope. "Give back to Ceasar what is Ceasar's and to God what is God's" is always recognized as the ideological tradition in the Western World. But it seems that this book of Carter proves an ancient proposition of Confucianism in the east: a just cause gains great support while an unjust cause gains little. Although the author discusses moral issues from the perspective of Christianity, its critique and review have great significance on the moral decline under the background of globalization. This is not a collection of political comments, but an important ideological book, representing the review on tradition and conscience of intellectuals in the elite culture of the US.