美国的对外经济援助是在美国人普遍相信国家利益正在受到严重威胁的冷战环境下产生和延续的。冷战结束后,将对外援助作为美国外交政策的工具的观点受到争论 The United States’ foreign economic assistance is born and extended under the cold war environment in which Americans generally believe that their national interests are being seriously threatened. After the Cold War, arguments about foreign aid as a tool for U.S. foreign policy were debated