试析少数族群对美国外交决策的影响

源源不断的年轻移民为美国经济发展注入不竭活力的同时 ,也给美国外交造成民族认同混乱。作为多民族移民国家 ,美国外交过程是在平衡国内各族群复杂甚至对立的矛盾关系基础上进行的。少数族群具有便于组织、注意力集中、不受多数群体干扰的优势。尽管地位不同的少数族群在美国社会扮演的角色各有不同 ,但都在各尽所能地影响美国政府与其母国的关系。这种在世界各国中罕见的少数族群作用实质上是一个双向影响过程 ,考察这一特殊的作用过程无疑有利于透过美国外交的复杂现象看其背后的真实本质 :即得到更好实现的往往是美国的国家利益。

Analysis of the Impact of Ethnic Minority Groups on US Foreign Policy Decision-making

As a multi-ethnic country of immigration, U.S. foreign policy decision-making process is based on balancing the complicated and sometimes even conflicting relationships among domestic ethnic groups. Though minority groups with different social status may have different roles to play in the American society, they all try every means to affect the relations between the American government and their home countries. This rarely seen minority influence among the countries in the world is actually a process of mutual influence, a study of this special process is obviously helpful in seeing the real fact through the complex phenomenon in American foreign policy decision-making: i.e. it is usually the American national interests that are eventually better realized.