北约新战略与欧盟共同外交与安全政策

冷战结束以后，欧洲面临着严峻的安全挑战。原苏联东欧地区因剧变而引发了民族矛盾、宗教冲突、领土争端等。北约因传统对手的消失面临解散的危险，而欧盟独立处事的能力极其有限。在这种背景之下，美国为了继续利用北约维护其在欧洲的领导地位，借口稳定欧洲，极力倡导北约新战略。法、德、英等欧洲主要国家以“欧洲事务的欧洲化”为口号试图推出欧盟共同外交与安全政策，推动独立防务力量的发展。美国与法、德、英之间因争夺欧洲事务的主导权，提出了关于欧洲安全结构的不同设想。美国、北约因不可逆转的欧洲化趋势，无可奈何地支持欧盟发展欧洲特性，建立欧洲支柱。欧盟因难以在短期内摆脱对美国的依赖，接受在北约的框架内实施欧盟共同外交与安全政策。

NATO New Strategy & EU Common Foreign Security Policy

With the end of the cold war, Europe was confronted with grim challenges of security. The nation contradictions, the religion conflicts and the border disputes came into being because of the disappearance of the former USSR and the East Europe, and EU was short of the capacity to act independently. Under the background above, the US glamorously advocated the New Strategy of NATO in order to keep her leadership about the European affairs, and France, Germany and the Great Britain tried initiating the Common Foreign and Security Policy of EU. The US, France, Germany and the Great Britain put forward different European security frames for the sake of playing the dominant role of the European affairs. Under the leadership of the US, NATO had to support the development of European Security and Defense Identity, and the UN accepted the viewpoint that the development of the ESDI must be limited within NATO at the same time.