本报告浏览了一年以来国外主流国际关系研究期刊上所发表的文章，并择其部分具有代表性的文献进行评述，以此把握当前国际关系研究的热点与趋势。目前国际学界对于国际关系的研究出现了若干新动向，包括国际关系多元主义理论的日益深化、中美关系研究的重要性愈加凸显、金砖国家相关议题的研究比重持续上升、对国内战争的讨论更加丰富立体等。这些新的热点与趋势值得国内学界关注。
This report reviews some representative articles in mainstream foreign journals appear on international relations during the past year，and comments on their grasp of the hot issues and on trends in current research. The authors think that there are several new trends in the study of international relations in international academic circles，including the deepening of pluralism in international relations theory，the more prominent importance of research on Sino-American relations，the rising proportion of research on issues related to the BRICs，more plentiful and richer discussions of civil wars，and so forth. These new issues and trends are worthy of attention in domestic academic circles.
