17世纪初英西外交失败原因剖析

On the Causes of the Failure in the English Anti-Spain Foreign Policy

英国斯图亚特王朝早期的两位君主都主张实行亲西班牙的外交战略。但是查理为了雪洗在西班牙宫廷中受到的羞辱,同时也为了迎合英国人根深蒂固的反西班牙情绪,以便争取政治精英的信任和支持,遂在白金汉的怂恿下向西班牙宣战,卷入了三十年战争。事与愿违,查理的反西班牙政策非但没有使他赢得政治精英的信任,却恶化了查理与政治精英之间的关系,原因就在于他的现实主义外交与乡绅理想主义外交、新教价值倾向与天主教价值倾向之间的碰撞。

The early Stuart kings made the pro-Spain foreign policy.But Charles I led England to involve in the thirty years＇ war in order to wash off the insult made by the Spain court and obtain the support given by the political elite.England involved in the thirty years＇ war.But unexpectedly, Charles＇s anti-Spain policy did not win the support of the gentry,but sharpened the relation between Charles and the political elite.The reason for this was that there were collisions between Charles＇s realistic foreign policy and the landed gentry＇s idealistic one,the Catholic＇s value and the Protestant＇s one.