interventionism

Examples of interventionism in the following topics:

• Interventionism

  • After WWII, the US's foreign policy was characterized by interventionism, which meant the US was directly involved in other states' affairs.
  • As the world was quickly drawn into WWII, the United States' isolationist policies were replaced by more interventionism.
  • After WWII, the United States took a policy of interventionism in order to contain communist influence abroad.
  • Such forms of interventionism included giving aid to European nations to rebuild , having an active role in the UN, NATO, and police actions around the world, and involving the CIA in several coup take overs in Latin America and the Middle East.
  • After WWII, the US's foreign policy was characterized by interventionism.

• Isolationism

  • Isolationism or non-interventionism was a tradition in America's foreign policy for its first two centuries.
  • For the first 200 years of United States history, the national policy was isolationism and non-interventionism.
  • George Washington's farewell address is often cited as laying the foundation for a tradition of American non-interventionism: "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.
  • Non-interventionism continued throughout the nineteeth century.
  • Non-interventionism took a new turn after the Crash of 1929.

• Span of Government

  • Political interventionism can include methods such as sanctions on a foreign economy or international trade with similar results to protectionism, or other international sanctions
  • Interventionism is a term for a policy of non-defensive (proactive) activity undertaken by a nation-state, or other geo-political jurisdiction of a lesser or greater nature, to manipulate an economy or society.
  • The most common applications of the term are for economic interventionism (a state's intervention in its own economy), and foreign interventionism (a state's intervention in the affairs of another nation as part of its foreign policy).
  • Political interventionism can include methods such as sanctions on a foreign economy or international trade with similar results to protectionism, or other international sanctions through international cooperation decisions guarding international law or global justice.

• Issues with the Traditional Political Spectrum

  • Other axes include: the focus of political concern (communitarianism vs. individualism), responses to conflict (conversation vs. force), the role of the church (clericalism vs. anticlericalism), foreign policy (interventionism vs. non-interventionism), and freedom (positive liberty vs. negative liberty).

• World War II

  • However, there were still many who held on to the age-old tenets of non-interventionism.
  • Domestic support for non-interventionism disappeared.

• The Democratic Party

  • In foreign policy, internationalism (including interventionism) was a dominant theme from 1913 to the mid-1960s.