non-interventionism

(noun)

Nonintervention or non-interventionism is a foreign policy which holds that political rulers should avoid alliances with other nations, but still retain diplomacy, and avoid all wars not related to direct self-defense. This is based on the grounds that a state should not interfere in the internal politics of another state, based upon the principles of state sovereignty and self-determination. A similar phrase is "strategic independence. "

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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