美国对新中国外交研究近况

U.S. scholars studying Chinese foreign policy used to treat China as a monolithic rational actor. With the expansion of the community of foreign policy analysts, however, some of them begin to support or test their theories by applying them to the study of Chinese foreign policy. Meanwhile, more and more scholars in this field employ foreign policy analysis approaches to their work, adopting a multilevel and multicausal method. The integration of the two groups promotes the study of Chinese foreign policy in both depth and breadth, characterizing the current trend in this field.