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In nine pages this paper examines the foreign policy of isolation the United States has embraced throughout most of its history. Six sources are listed in the bibliography.
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here at home! There is more American interests here than anywhere" (as cited in Kauffman, 1987, p. 758). This is the plain-speaking essence of isolationism, which has been
defined by foreign policy specialists as "the unwillingness to undertake or risk undertaking military commitments abroad, especially outside of the Western Hemisphere" (Schonberg, 2003, p. 41). Throughout history, both
conservatives and liberals have embraced isolationist approaches to foreign policy, with the liberals fearing that American interests will be exchanged for international interests and the nationalistic conservatives expressing fear that
contact with the outside world could somehow harm the United States (Schonberg, 2003). As a foreign policy preference, isolationism begins with the American founding fathers. An excerpt from the
farewell address of George Washington clearly illustrates a preference for isolationism: "The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to
have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us
stop. Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes
of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics
or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities. Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course" (as cited in Leopold,
1962, p. 20). Later, Thomas Jefferson echoed these sentiments with his pledge of "peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none" (as cited Kauffman, 1987,
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