单边主义是美国外交的一种传统

对美国外交中是否存在孤立主义传统或多边主义的问题,向来存在争议。本文尝试结合国内著名学者叶江、贾庆国先生的两篇相关文章及国内外最新的研究成果对这些问题作进一步的讨论。文章指出,美国根本就不存在孤立主义传统或多边主义外交,单边主义是美国外交始终不变的主线,美国外交围绕这个主线上下波动,只有单边主义波峰、波谷的区别,却不会有单边主义与多边主义转换的可能。因此能够成为美国外交传统的是单边主义,而不是孤立主义或多边主义。

Unilateralism Is a Tradition in U.S. Foreign Policy

It's been disputed whether isolationism or multilateralism is the tradition of U.S. foreign policy. The article tries to further the discussion in view of latest international research results and two articles written by domestic scholars Ye Jiang and Jia Qingguo. The article holds that isolationism or multilateralism is not a tradition the United States. Unilateralism has always been the everlasting mainstream of U.S. foreign policy. American foreign policy has been fluctuating round the mainstream, and differentiates itself between wave crest or trough, but never between unilateralism and multilateralism. So to be the tradition of U.S. foreign policy, it's unilateralism, not isolationism nor multilateralism.