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isolationism|aɪsəˈleɪʃənɪz(ə)m|
[f. isolation + -ism.]
The policy of seeking (political or national) isolation: with special reference to the U.S.A. Also transf.
192219th Cent. Nov. 731 Her isolationism..discovered that the strain of a formidable advance against freedom was more than it could bear. 1930Headway June 112/2 Add to this the fact that half the people..who have emigrated to America in the last generation or so are Europeans who have left Europe because they wanted to get away from Europe, and the secret of America's ‘isolationism’ is very largely explained. 1931Time & Tide Suppl. 4 July, However much an instructed minority in America might be in favour of the abandonment of isolationism and a larger co-operation with Europe. 1934[see autarky b]. 1953Manch. Guardian Weekly 27 Aug. 1 He was now ready to say that ‘unilateralism is the new face of isolationism’. 1955Bull. Atomic Sci. Oct. 274 Apparently, the period of enforced scientific isolationism imposed on them for several years has not destroyed this tradition. 1956K. Clark Nude v. 167 The rigid isolationism of the Parthenon metopes. 1969Nature 8 Feb. 524/2 One of the lamentable consequences of intellectual isolation is isolationism—the unconscious fear of exposing the inadequacy of one's achievement to one's fellow scientists. 1973Guardian 25 Apr. 11/1 The difference..between the old isolationism and the new was that whereas the United States felt itself too good for the world in the 1930s, it now felt it was not good enough. |