近一段时间以来,北约东扩成为国际关系中的热点。美国为了尽快推进北约向东扩大,俄罗斯为了尽力阻止和延缓北约的东扩,两国可谓是绞尽了脑汁、算尽了机关。经过去年底的里斯本欧洲安全与合作组织首脑会议,今年初的赫尔辛基美俄首脑会晤等几次交锋,国势孱弱的俄罗斯不得不作出妥协,默认了北约即将东扩的现实。今年7月,在北约马德里首脑会议上将正式宣布首批新成员国的名单,看来北约的东扩已成为不可避免的现实,北约的东进序曲似乎已经吹响。 美国是北约东扩的主要发起者和推动者。冷战结束以后,美国为了维护自己在西方世界中的领导地位,继续加强自己在欧洲的军事与政治存在,接管由于苏联解体、华约解散而在中东欧地区造成的所谓“真空地带”,竭力主张北约东扩。由于美国所拥有的强大军事 For some time now, NATO’s eastward expansion has become a hot issue in international relations. In order to push NATO’s eastward expansion as quickly as possible and Russia try its utmost to stop and delay the NATO’s eastward expansion, the United States has exhausted its brains and tried its best. After the summit of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe at the end of last year, the U.S.-Russian summit meeting in Helsinki earlier this year, and several other clashes, the weaker state of Russia has to compromise and acquiesce in the imminent expansion of NATO. In July this year, at the NATO Madrid Summit, the list of the first new member states will be formally announced. It seems that the NATO’s eastward expansion has become an unavoidable reality and that the NATO overthrow of the east seems to have been sounded. The United States is the main initiator and promoter of NATO’s eastward expansion. After the end of the Cold War, the United States continued to strengthen its military and political presence in Europe in order to safeguard its leadership in the Western world and took over the so-called “vacuum zone” in Central and Eastern Europe caused by the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of Warshaw. NATO eastward expansion. Due to the powerful military owned by the United States