Non-interventionism

(noun)

Non-interventionism is a foreign policy in which nations engage in "strategic independence” by avoiding international military alliances but still take part in diplomacy to help prevent conflicts. Based upon the principles of state sovereignty and self-determination, it holds that nations should not interfere in the internal politics of another state.

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Examples of Non-interventionism in the following topics:

  • The Mood in America

    • The outbreak of World War II and increasing threats from Nazi Germany and Japan changed the U.S. long-standing stand of isolationism and non-interventionism.
    • Non-interventionism or isolationism took a new turn during the Great Depression.
    • The post-World War I isolationism and non-interventionism in the U.S. resulted also in a number of so-called neutrality acts passed in the 1930s in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia.
    • When in 1939 Germany invaded Poland, marking the outbreak of World War II, Americans were divided over the question of non-interventionism.
    • However, there were still many who held on to non-interventionism.

  • Postwar Isolationism

    • Despite the United States participation in World War I and Wilson's international efforts to establish a new, peaceful global order, non-interventionist tendencies of US foreign policy were in full force in the aftermath of the war.
    • Non-interventionism or isolationism took a new turn during the Great Depression.
    • The policy aimed to replace earlier military interventions of the United States in Latin America with the principle of non-intervention and non-interference in the domestic affairs of Latin America.
    • When in 1939 Germany invaded Poland, marking the outbreak of World War II, Americans were divided over the question of non-interventionism.
    • However, there were still many who held on to non-interventionism.

  • Initial Reactions

    • During the years 1914-1917, when the United States pursued its policy of non-intervention, tensions with belligerent European powers grew.
    • Yet, at the outbreak of the war, the United States pursued a policy of non-interventionism, avoiding conflict while trying to broker a peace.

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    • The American counter-proposal of November 26 required Japan to evacuate all of China without conditions and conclude non-aggression pacts with Pacific powers.
    • Domestic support for non-interventionism, which had been traditionally strong and fading since the fall of France in 1940, disappeared.

  • Modern Republicanism

    • Specifically, they intended to counter Taft's non-interventionism and to fight against 'Communism, Korea and corruption. ' Eisenhower's party sent him as a man who could be strong enough to break the 20-year Democratic rule in office while reconciling the split Republican party's ideas on domestic and international policy.

  • The New Right

    • The New Right also differs from the Old Right (1933–1955) on issues concerning foreign policy with the New Right being opposed to the non-interventionism of the Old Right.

  • American Neutrality

    • Under President Woodrow Wilson, the U.S. maintained a policy of non-interventionism, avoiding participation in the conflict while trying to broker a European peace, which was characterized as neutrality "in thought and deed."

  • The Eisenhower Administration

    • His goal was to prevent Robert Taft's non-interventionism—including opposition to NATO—from becoming public policy.
    • In 1954, he sent Allen Welsh Dulles as a delegate to the Geneva Conference, which ended the First Indochina War and temporarily partitioned Vietnam into a Communist northern half (under Ho Chi Minh) and a non-Communist southern half (under Ngo Dinh Diem).

  • The Roosevelt Corollary

    • The Corollary rejected territorial expansion, but upheld interventionism.
    • Roosevelt further renounced interventionism and established his "Good Neighbor Policy. "

  • The Cuban War of Independence