isolationism
孤立主义,隔绝主义,隔离主义,闭关锁国
Related Words
Definitions
- 1
- : the policy or doctrine of isolating one's country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances, foreign economic commitments, international agreements, etc., seeking to devote the entire efforts of one's country to its own advancement and remain at peace by avoiding foreign entanglements and responsibilities.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
The most crucial lesson we see is the need to counteract nuclear nationalism and isolationism.
Yet American minimalism, isolationism, realism, mind-our-own-business-ism—whatever you want to call it—is cyclical.
So how does he end up with the leader of American isolationism?
Cheney tacitly bashed Paul last month, saying an “increasing strain of isolationism” is taking over their party.
Thankfully, not all governments indulged this brand of human rights isolationism when Mandela was jailed on Robben Island.
The Palestine Partition plan failed because it took ethnic isolationism as a value and subordinated justice to it.
After all, there was precedent for such isolationism—did the sainted Betty Crocker ever enlist in any crusades?
Again, our propagandists have to understand isolationism, an historic American tradition in one sense, a falsehood in another.
This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolationism in the pursuit of security is no virtue.
Isolationism would not only tie our hands in fighting enemies, it would keep us from helping our friends in desperate need.
To which extent do they reflect pragmatic reintegration in the global economy or safe isolationism?