neo-isolationistn.adj.
/ˌniːəʊˌʌɪsəˈleɪʃn̩ɪst/, /ˌniːəʊˌʌɪsəˈleɪʃənɪst/, U.S. /ˈˌnioʊˌaɪsəˈleɪʃənəst/ A. n.
A person who supports or advocates a renewed or revived isolationism.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific policies or advocacy of > [noun] > other specific policies or advocacy of > supporter of
common holder1565
abolitionist1827
governmentalist1831
destructive1832
annexationist1841
destructionist1841
annexionist1844
decompositionist1849
expansionist1862
disintegrator1865
dissolutionist1882
irredentist1882
disintegrationist1884
isolationist1899
retentionist1899
free fooder1903
laissez-fairist1932
autarkist1938
elitist1938
neo-isolationist1950
non-aligner1963
1950 N.Y. Times 30 Dec. 12/1 The neo-isolationists..propose to retreat to the Western hemisphere, with some outlying bases.
1967 Listener 21 Dec. 813/1 People who think we ought not to be in Asia are neo-isolationists.
1988 C. S. Gray Geopolitics of Super Power ix. 109 Some American neo-isolationists are tempted by the hope that a Soviet Union truly dominant as a landpower throughout Eurasia would be content to treat the extra-Eurasian world as an area of preponderant American interest.
1997 U.S. News & World Rep. 14 July 37/3 Opponents include neo-isolationists who want the United States to leave NATO.
B. adj.
Characterized by or supporting neo-isolationism.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific policies or advocacy of > [adjective] > relating to or supporting other specific policies
laissez-faire1825
restorationist1828
abolitionist1833
irredential1891
pronatalist1938
elitist1943
neo-isolationist1952
non-aligned1954
1952 Polit. Sci. Q. 67 192 If we consider it immoral..to trade away the freedom and independence of other nations.., it shows that we are sentimental,..Utopian and neo-isolationist.
1971 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 4 This month's magazine offers a considerable dose of anti-neoisolationist nourishment: two articles on Egypt and the Middle East situation, reports on Berlin, Canada, and China policy; as well as a lighthearted exercise in the ways of England.
1992 Independent 1 Feb. (Mag.) 14/1 The emergence of the neo-isolationist Republican Patrick Buchanan to challenge George Bush has echoes not just of America's earlier isolationists but of past Little Englanders.
2001 Book Nov.–Dec. 65/3 By cutting back on their foreign-news coverage in the '80s, the TV networks became ‘essentially isolationist, or neo-isolationist’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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