Politics & Society
Are Countries Well off being Isolationists?!
The Concept of Internationalism and Isolationism is just as contrasted between Black and White.
The idea of isolationism is not a new one. Recently, amid sweeping globalization efforts and international sociopolitical interventions, it has gotten particular attention.
America’s recent “Trumpist” version of yearning to pull out of the foreign swamp comprises a sharp divergence from its current track record of determining foreign engagement. However, such an inward twist echoes strongly with America’s other past. Isolationism spans U.S. history, from the founding era through the Trump presidency.
President George Washington in 1796 cautioned Americans “to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.” After that, “the isolationist impulse embraced by George Washington and the other Founders guided the nation for much of American history before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Isolationism is a level of foreign policies institutionalized by various leaders who assert that they can fulfill nations’ best interests by keeping away from the affairs of other countries. One must avoid drawing the country into dangerous and otherwise…
