isolationism
Isolationism describes the endeavor of a state to limit its foreign policy activities to certain areas of the world and to avoid alliance obligations.
The tendency towards voluntary self-exclusion from international political events and isolation from abroad has been part of US foreign policy since the Monroe Doctrine of the 1820s . American isolationism was ended first with the entry into the First World War in 1917, and later finally with the entry into the Second World War , and has been practically irrelevant since 1945 or was replaced by interventionism .
Japan experienced the longest period of isolationism, over 200 years old, in the time of closure ( sakoku ). Likewise, the ban on private seafaring ( Hai jin ) in China during the Ming Dynasty was an expression of isolationist policy. Enver Hoxha's policy at the time of the Albanian solo effort was an example of the extreme isolation of a state and the pursuit of complete self-sufficiency . Another example that continues to this day is the isolation of North Korea .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry "Isolationismus" in Der Brockhaus multimedial 2005
- ^ Encyclopedia entry , Schubert, Klaus / Martina Klein: Das Politiklexikon. 4th, updated Edition Bonn: Dietz 2006 on the website of the Federal Agency for Civic Education
- ↑ "Isolationismus" ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Wissen.de / history
- ↑ Theo Sommer : Ronald Reagan's new gruffness, rockets against Ghaddafi: Will striking now become a doctrine? in Die Zeit , Issue 15 of April 4, 1986 (... Isolation and Interventionism : Many US Presidents have pinned their names on a foreign policy doctrine. It began with Monroe, who in 1823 shouted a harsh "Hands off the Western Hemisphere!" to Europeans .)
