第二次世界大战与澳苏建交

The Second World War and the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between Australia and the Soviet Union

第二次世界大战是澳大利亚外交和防务发展的分水岭。二战前,澳英传统关系以及大英帝国的保护意识使澳大利亚外交一直处于边缘状态,第二次世界大战却改变了这种传统的外交格局。澳苏建交是这一变革过程中的重要事件之一。澳苏关系的正常化既是两国政治家和外交家站在战略的高度去审视双边关系并为之做出不懈努力的结果,又是英苏关系一定程度上改善的体现。澳苏建交反映了国家利益尤其是安全利益始终是国际关系发展的一个主要线索和动力,同时也说明了在战争的特殊背景下国际关系的复杂和微妙。

The World War II was a watershed for the development of Australian diplomacy and defence. Before the war, the traditional relationship between Australia and Britain and the protective sense by the Empire of Great Britain, made Australian diplomacy to be peripheral situation all the time. As a result, any country other than the U.K. was unlikely to be involved in Australia's diplomatic field. The World War II has changed the traditional diplomatic pattern; the establishment of the diplomatic relations between Australia and the Soviet Union was one of important events during this process of change. The normalization of relations between those two countries not only had been the result of the examination of relationship and efforts contributed by politicians and diplomats of both sides from the view of strategy, but also the embodiment of the improvement of the relationship between Britain and the Soviet Union in a sense. The establishment of diplomatic relations between those two countries not only reflected their interests on security, but was also a main clue and motive force to the development of international relations, and at the same time certified the complexity and subtlety of international relations against a special background of war.