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The poem Is much more than just that, it warns against the danger of thinking isolationism will keep you safe.

The most crucial lesson we see is the need to counteract nuclear nationalism and isolationism.

Yet American minimalism, isolationism, realism, mind-our-own-business-ism—whatever you want to call it—is cyclical.

So how does he end up with the leader of American isolationism?

Cheney tacitly bashed Paul last month, saying an “increasing strain of isolationism” is taking over their party.

Thankfully, not all governments indulged this brand of human rights isolationism when Mandela was jailed on Robben Island.

The Palestine Partition plan failed because it took ethnic isolationism as a value and subordinated justice to it.

After all, there was precedent for such isolationism—did the sainted Betty Crocker ever enlist in any crusades?

Again, our propagandists have to understand isolationism, an historic American tradition in one sense, a falsehood in another.

This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolationism in the pursuit of security is no virtue.

Isolationism would not only tie our hands in fighting enemies, it would keep us from helping our friends in desperate need.

To which extent do they reflect pragmatic reintegration in the global economy or safe isolationism?

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On this page you'll find 242 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to isolationism, such as: free trade, liberalism, noninterference, nonintervention, controls on a system disinvolvement, and free competition.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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