Democracy as a Factor of American Foreign Policy

冷战结束后，美国在寻求国际新秩序的过程中，将民主作为其外交政策的重要因素之一。然而，以民主的名义追求国家利益给人的印象是，美国不仅追求自己的利益，而且追求世界其他国家的普遍利益。美国以民主国家自居，世界其他国家也以民主国家自居，并接受了美国民主的影响。这个实地研究项目旨在阐明民主在美国外交政策中所起的作用。每个成员都进行了自己的档案研究或访谈，并根据个人的结果，全体成员参加了讨论。民主是美国自建国以来的一项基本原则，与基督教价值观有着深刻的联系。但民主的含义并不是一成不变的，这就导致了各国基于民主的不同行为 关于我们 个人与社会的关系或个人与社会的关系。在政府层面上，民主原则并没有得到贯彻，也没有得到优先考虑，这一点在冷战时期的档案研究中再次得到证实。在许多方面，今天强调民主与冷战思维有共同之处。然而，认为美国所面临的社会只是被动地被迫接受美国式的民主，这并不是一个正确的描述。民主的模糊性反过来也提供了机会。美国民主的独特性质在与其他社会的接触中改变了自己，就像它改变了当地社会一样。诚然，民主包含着一定的普世价值，这是国际机构民主化政策的关键。但是，只要民主与国家政治的核心相关联，中立地援助民主在逻辑上是不可能的。因此，美国在走向国际新秩序的过程中，既要注意民主对其他社会的积极影响，也要注意使用民主的潜在危险。少

In search of a new international order after the Cold War, American foreign policy emphasizes democracy as one of its major factors. The pursuit of national interest in the name of democracy, however, gives an impression that the United States is not just pursuing its own interest, but the universal interest for the rest of the world. The United States poses itself as a democratic nation, and the rest of the world also regards it as such, and received the influence of American democracy. This field research project aims to c1arify what role democracy plays in American foreign policy. Each member conducted his/her own archival research or interviews, and based on the individual results, the whole members participated in the discussion.Democracy is a fundamental principle of the United States since its foundation, and deeply connected with the Christian value. But the meaning of democracy is not static, which causes different conducts which are respectively based on democracy in the stat … More e-individual relations or in the society-individual relations. At the governmental level, democratic principle has not always been implemented nor put priority on, which is reconfirmed by the Cold-War archival research. In many ways, today's emphasis on democracy shares common aspect with Cold-War mentality. It is not a correct description, though, to regard the societies, faced with the United States, have been just passively forced upon American version of democracy. The ambiguous nature of democracy, in turn, offers opportunities as well. And peculiar nature of American democracy changes itself in its encounter with other societies, just as it changes the local society. It is true that democracy contains certain universal value, which is the key in intenational institutions' policies for democratization. However, as long as democracy is related with the core of the nation's politics, neutral assistance for democratization is logically impossible.It is, thus, important that the United States should pay attention both to the positive impact of democracy on other societies, and the potential danger of using democracy, as it works toward the new international order. Less