积极分水岭 — — 即能对国际或地区政局产生地震偏移影响、走向建立新生国家的机会；或是可使用经济和军事援助以防止可信消极分水岭的机会 — — 也要求同等的承诺。
Positive watersheds – opportunities to engineer seismic shifts in international or regional political affairs through nation-building, or to use economic and military assistance to prevent plausible negative watersheds – demand an equal level of commitment.