卡特政府公共外交政策分析

Main actions in public diplomacy of the Carter administration

20世纪70年代中后期卡特政府的公共外交政策,是在内外环境不太有利的背景下出台和实施的,其特点主要表现为,一方面在理想与自由传统的根基上,通过大量人文社会信息的积极输出与主动交流,改善与提升美国在海外的自由国家形象,着眼于长期国家利益的收获;另一方面在现实与务实传统的前提下,通过经裁剪与取舍的海量信息诱导与佐证,服务于论证美国官方主推的外交政策在道义上的合理与合法性,看重眼下国家利益的维护。但在贯彻过程中,暴露出政府宣传内容与实际做法上的明显矛盾,其产生的负面效果是无法真正消除的。

Public diplomacy policy of the Carter administration in the second half of the 1970s was based and implemented in a context of unfavorable domestic and foreign environment. On one hand, based on ideology and liberal tradition, via large amounts of active output and spontaneous exchange of humanities and social information, it improved US free country image overseas, focusing on gain of long-term national interest; on the other hand, under the condition of reality and practical tradition, through immense selected information seduction and supporting evidence, it served to argue the ethical justification and legality offoreign policy that was mainly pushed forward by the US government, focusing on protection of national interest at the time. In the process of its implementation, there were conspicuous contradictions between government propaganda and actual practice with serious negative effects hard to be eradicated.