isolationism

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• 12/11/2022
  

  Will the Republican's Tilt Toward Isolationism End?

  by Waller R. Newell

  The Republican Party's fracturing between the remaining neocons and a younger group of isolationists comes at a critical moment when Russia is testing the possible limits on its expansive ambitions. 

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• SOURCE: Talking Points Memo
  8/9/2022
  

  You Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Gotta Hand it To America Firsters

  by Eric Rauchway

  Critics of American aid to Ukraine have misconstrued the history of FDR's "Lend-Lease" aid to Britain and the USSR as a factor that pushed the world into total war. It's worth considering the political affiliations of people who made that argument in 1941. 

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• SOURCE: Governing
  3/10/2022
  

  The Long History of American Isolationism

  by Lindsay Chervinsky

  Since the days of George Washington, the imperatives of American economic development and hegemony over the western hemisphere, and the desire to avoid European wars, have been in tension. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  2/3/2022
  

  Who's Afraid of Isolationism?

  by Stephen Wertheim

  It's past time for "isolationism" to stop being a dirty word in discussing America's relationship to the world. The use of the term as a pejorative has justified too many ill-considered military interventions.

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• 8/29/2021
  

  A Brief History of the "Isolationist" Strawman

  by Brandan P. Buck

  As the United States enters another round of agonizing soul searching after another lost war, Americans should learn the fraught political history of the "isolationist" label.

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• SOURCE: Library of Congress
  2/3/2021
  

  The History of American Isolationism with Charles Kupchan: Thurs. Feb. 11

  Join the John W. Kluge Center for a discussion of the evolution of U.S. statecraft with Charles Kupchan, author of a new book, Isolationism: A History of America’s Effort to Shield Itself from the World.`

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  8/18/2020
  

  The Conceit of American Indispensability [review]

  In his new book, Samuel Zipp Zipp explores the resonance of Willkie’s international ideas through the story of his most quixotic venture.

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• 4/5/2020
  

  What the "Primacy" Debate in Foreign Policy Gets Wrong

  by Ken Weisbrode

  Yes, let’s end “endless wars” and enhance peaceable diplomacy around the world. But let us not at the same time renounce by redefinition America’s international responsibilities and its capacity for wise, moral leadership.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/21/19
  

  The Last Time America Turned Away From the World

  by John Milton Cooper

  The unknown story behind Henry Cabot Lodge’s campaign against the League of Nations.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7-21-18
  

  Republican leaders need to remember what happened the last time US chose to be isolated

  by Susan Dunn

  We learned the price of isolationism once.  Do we need to learn it again? 

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• 2/18/18
  

  Are We Changing Places with China?

  by Paul S. Ropp

  We're headed down as we withdraw from the world and China's going up as it embraces a global leadership role. 

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• 9-24-17
  

  The Remarkably Similar Parallels Between the Debate About Our Role in the World in 2016 and 1919

  by Michael S. Neiberg

  With the benefit of time we can see more clearly the essential bifurcation in American views about US leadership and how they began in the aftermath of the heated debate over the Treaty of Versailles.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  4-18-17
  

  Scholar: Why presidential candidates (like Trump) campaign as isolationists but (like Trump) govern as hawks

  by Verlan Lewis

  The pattern goes back at least to 1900.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  2-17-17
  

  Quit calling Donald Trump an isolationist. He’s worse than that.

  by Stephen Wertheim

  What Trump really believes is far more dangerous.

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• 10-28-13
  

  Bashing "Isolationists" While at War in the World

  by Andrew J. Bacevich

  Pundits are proclaiming a new American isolationism... and they've been doing so since before the end of World War II.