美国缘何支持欧洲一体化?

Why does the United States support the integration of Europe?

欧洲一体化是在战后欧洲特定历史条件下形成的一个进程。美国从其全球战略及自身利益的考虑出发，一开始便支持并推动这一进程，冷战期间，对欧洲一体化的支持实际成为美国对欧政策的基础。冷战结束后，尽管美欧矛盾不断上升，但华盛顿在总体上支持欧洲一体化的态度并未改...

Abstract This article holds that the US policy of supporting European integration since the Second World War has been consistently proclaimed and pursued by every American administration from Truman's to Clinton's.The article centres on analysing the motives for America's support of European integration and argues that such support is mainly driven by US self interest,although Washington has asserted that it is mostly in Europe's interests.The three most important motives were the “double” containment of the Soviet Union and Germany,the pursuit of a more rational and efficient Europe,which could also lighten the heavy burden put upon the United States since 1945,and popularising the American model in Europe.In the American perspective,the integrated Europe was always to be fitted into a wider Atlantic framework,through which the United States would be able to protect its leading role within the Western World.