Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Isolationism has deep roots in American foreign policy stretching back to George Washington. FotografiaBasica/Getty Images Few ...

One year ago, President Trump initiated the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization by executive order.

No one claims to be an isolationist, but foreign policy analysts keep imagining and fearing a “resurgence” of isolationism around every corner. This fear was on display in a recent Atlantic article by ...

Statesmen must debate and reassess the merits of any war. How else can they apply our principles to foreign policy in a prudent manner? Such a debate is not, in itself, indicative of rising ...

Not so long ago, if you overheard a political conversation about isolationism, you assumed it was about the past. Popular in the 1920s and 1930s, the idea of America going it alone in the world — ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Often used as a political weapon, the term conjures images of a retreating America, ...