It is useful to think about the presidential election with a framework that emphasizes the old tension between isolationism and interventionism. In many ways, the Republicans represent the ...

Few terms in American foreign policy discourse are as misunderstood or politically charged as “isolationism.” Often used as a political weapon, the term conjures images of a retreating America, ...

The history of American foreign policy from the earliest days of our Republic has reflected a disconcerting combination of two seemingly contradictory orientations — isolationism and interventionism.

Panellists Rebecca Tinsley and Charles Hecker discuss the UN’s warnings about nuclear threats, the unintended consequences of the US’s slide towards isolationism, Niger’s rejection of Western ...

The history of American foreign policy from the earliest days of our Republic has reflected a rather disconcerting combination of two seemingly contradictory orientations — isolationism and ...

It is useful to think about the presidential election with a framework that emphasizes the old tension between isolationism and interventionism. In many ways, the Republicans represent the ...

It is possible—though far from certain—that the coming Trump presidency will herald a broad retreat from most of America’s overseas military commitments and actions. In the past, Trump has expressed ...

President Lyndon Johnson in 1965 stated that the American mission was to show how to liberate man. But, he went on, times change and now “if American lives and American treasure be spilled...that is ...

A growing chorus of establishment pundits and policymakers have taken to branding anyone who calls for prioritizing diplomacy over force in U.S. foreign policy as “isolationist.” In official ...