Crossword clues for isolationism
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
isolationism \i`so*la"tion*ism\ ([imac]`s[-o]*l[=a]"sh[u^]n*[i^]z'm), n. [Cf. F. isolation.] The doctrine or policy of minimal participation by one's country in international economic and political relations, specifically by not entering into alliances or other international agreements, in order to avoid becoming entangled in foreign wars, and to be able to devote the nation's energies primarily to advancing its own domestic interests.
Wiktionary
n. A national (or group) policy of non-interaction with other nations (or groups).
WordNet
n. a policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations
Wikipedia
Isolationism is the foreign policy position that a nations' interests is best served by keeping the affairs of other countries at a distance. One possible motivation for limiting international involvement is to avoid being drawn into dangerous and otherwise undesirable conflicts. There may also be a perceived benefit from avoiding international trade agreements or other mutual assistance pacts.
Ambient 4: Isolationism is a 1994 studio album of new material by various ambient artists released on the Virgin Records label, part of its Ambient series. The compilation was issued as a double CD, packaged in a slimline case. It features liner notes by Kevin Martin.
Usage examples of "isolationism".
Her brand of sexual isolationism is far gentler than the extremist doctrine I depict, which shamefully misuses her name on planet Stratos.
Presidential election had truly represented grassroots revulsion against a decade of isolationism, or whether Lundigan-Westrum had simply been a ticket with unexpectedly strong theatre.
There was no way for tribal social organization to move beyond isolationism without finding a source of commonalities beyond kinship, and this the mythic motifs provided.
Besides which, he added silently to himself, if and when his peace initiative succeeded all that official isolationism would have to be changed anyway.
And while the African Pluralists League organized worldwide student exchange programs, theatre and dance tours, physical and net-based art exhibitions, and lobbied aggressively against cultural isolationism and discriminatory treatment of ethnic, religious and sexual minorities .
The Kolnari fusion bomb that destroyed the city of Keriss and the then-Council and Prophet had driven home his point about the dangers of isolationism quite thoroughly.