The term “isolationism” came into common usage in the United States in the 1930s—and it already had distinctly negative connotations. Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, who in the late nineteenth ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...

Andrew Latham, Macalester College (THE CONVERSATION) Few terms in American foreign policy discourse are as misunderstood or politically charged as “isolationism.” Advertisement Article ...

For example, some commentators argue that President Donald Trump’s return to the White House signals a new era of isolationism. But others contend his foreign policy is more akin to ...