The doctrine or policy of minimal participation by one's country in international economic and political relations, specifically by not entering into alliances or other international agreements, in order to avoid becoming entangled in foreign wars, and to be able to devote the nation's energies primarily to advancing its own domestic interests.
the avoidance of involvement in world affairs
The belief that the United States should not be involved in world affairs and should avoid involvement in foreign wars.
A policy of not participating in or withdrawing from international affairs, especially as practised by US governments during the first half of the 20th century.
a policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations
a view in American foreign policy that argues that the best interests of the United States lay in avoiding international entanglements
a policy of national isolation by abstention from alliances and other international political and economic relations.
A policy of limiting diplomatic or economic engagement with other countries. Extreme isolationism could lead a country to withdraw from its existing international obligations and to adopt protectionist trade policies that limit economic ties with the outside world.
United States foreign policy after World War I, in which U.S. refused to join the League of Nations or engage in diplomatic alliances; lasted until U.S. entry into World War II. (p. 845)
"Isolationism" is the label given to America's nineteenth-century foreign policy. It was based on President Washington's warning not to form alliances or become politically entangled with European nations in peacetime, and was announced as policy in the Monroe Doctrine of 1823.
Isolationism is a foreign policy which combines a non-interventionist military and a political policy of economic nationalism (protectionism).
