经济自由主义是西方自７０年代发展起来的国际关系重要理论流派，该理论中对所谓国际经济相互依存有助于促进国际合作的论述，常常被西方学者所引证，并对国内学界形成一定影响。本文考察“相互依存”对国际政治的现实和预期价值，并对经济自由主义就冷战后世界和平前景的预测 Economic liberalism is an important theoretical school of international relations developed by the West in the 1970s. The theory that the so-called interdependence of international economy helps to promote international cooperation is often quoted by Western scholars and has an influence on the domestic academic circle. This article examines the reality and expected value of “interdependence” in international politics and forecasts economic liberalism’s prospects for world peace after the Cold War