美国建国伊始便把海洋自由视为外交活动的主要原则之一，主要体现在捍卫中立国权力和航行自由权益方面。在欧洲，美国同英法等传统强国就航行自由与中立国权益开展积极的外交乃至军事行动；在地中海，美国先同巴巴里海盗国家虚与委蛇，待国力强盛后通过武力彻底解决了这些国家对美国在地中海贸易的骚扰。这些外交和军事行动虽起因不尽相同，但最后签订的条约多有维护美国外贸、航运的条款，也表达了美国早期朴素的海洋自由思想。%The freedom of seas has been one of the major principles of diplomatic activities at the beginning of the founding of the United States,which expressed in safeguarding neutral rights and the rights of freedom of navigation.In the Europe,the United States carried out positive diplomatic and military actions with traditional powers such as England and France on freedom of navigation and neutral rights.In the Mediterranean,the United States handled with Barbary Powers firstly,and then completely solved these powers’harassment to American trade in the Mediterranean by force.Although there were different reasons on these diplomatic and military actions,it’s agreed that many terms which safeguard American foreign trade and shipping in the treaties were signed finally,and these also showed the early simple idea of freedom of seas.
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