自20世纪90年代以来,台湾问题研究在美国越来越受重视,相关论著不断涌现。其中,1995～1996年的第三次台海危机尤其成为研讨热点,除了一些相关专著、论文集问世之外,一些学术期刊相继刊出此次危机的研究专集。美国国防情报局自1990年以来每年一度关于中国人民解放军的研讨会,在1996年成了此次危机的专题研讨。美国学者对此次危机的研究主要围绕危机的起因和中国大陆、台湾地区和美国三方在危机中的得失、危机引起的国际反应、中国人民解放军的攻台能力、美国战略模糊政策的有效性等问题展开。其中大陆发动对 Since the 1990s, the study of the Taiwan issue has drawn more and more attention in the United States, and related theories are constantly emerging. Among them, the third crisis of the Taiwan Strait from 1995 to 1996 has become a hot spot for discussion in particular. Apart from some relevant monographs and collections of theses, some academic journals published the research series on the crisis successively. The annual Defense Intelligence Agency seminar on the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) since 1990 has become a symposium on this crisis in 1996. The study of this crisis by American scholars mainly focused on the causes of the crisis and the gains and losses of the three parties in mainland China, Taiwan and the United States during the crisis, the international response to the crisis, the ability of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army to attack Taiwan, the effectiveness of the U.S. strategic ambiguity policy, etc. The problem started. Among them, the mainland mobilized