美欧矛盾的新发展及其影响

New Developments of US-European Contradictions and Their Implications

冷战结束后,美欧矛盾上升。反恐战争发动以来,双方矛盾在广度和深度上又有新发展。这是欧盟壮大、世界多极化趋势发展和美欧同盟原有基础发生重大变化的必然结果,也同双方外交政策思想与战略文化的差异及历史经验的不同有关。美欧矛盾的发展有利于促进大国关系的积极互动和世界多极化进程,但也会引起欧洲内部分化,对欧盟一体化进程造成一定的负面影响。尽管美欧矛盾还将继续上升,但在相当长时期内,美欧联盟和双方以相互依存与合作为主的关系不会发生根本变化。

Contradictions between the US and Europe have been on rise since the end of the Cold War, and these contradictions have developed in both depth and breadth in the wake of the war against terrorism. The new developments of relationship between the US and EU are the result of an increasingly stronger EU, development of world multipolarity and altered foundation of US-EU alliance. It is also the result of different foreign policy thinking, strategies and culture as well as historical experience. The development of US-EU contradictions would help promote the positive interaction of major power relations and the process of world multipolarity, but it may also cause division in Europe and consequently negative impacts on the integration process of EU. Despite the rising contradictions between the US and EU, the United States and European Union would maintain their interdependent and cooperative relationship with no fundamental changes in the years to