美国进入二十世纪最后十年时,面临着政策环境的戏剧性变化,发展中国家对美国的利益比早期显得更为重要,这些国家也在发生变化。因而,90年代美国同发展中国家的关系同过去相比,将变得大不相同而且更为复杂。许多发展中国家的经济和政治利益将突显出来,按传统解释的安全利益很可能削弱。从50年代起,美国对发展中国家,有关军事安全方面的政策一直处于统治地位。当前举世瞩目的东欧和苏联事件和美苏关系的迅速发展,已减少了“超级大国”在第三世界的紧张 When the United States entered the last decade of the twentieth century, it faced a dramatic change in the policy environment. The interest of developing countries in the United States became even more important than that in the early days. And these countries are also changing. Therefore, the relations between the United States and developing countries in the 1990s will be quite different and more complicated than in the past. The economic and political interests of many developing countries will be highlighted, and the security interests traditionally explained are likely to be weakened. Since the 1950s, the United States has always maintained its policy on developing countries and military security. The rapid development of the current world-wide events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and the relations between the United States and the Soviet Union have reduced tensions in the Third World of the “superpower”