What is Isolationism?

Isolationism believes that American national interests are best served by “quitting the world” or detaching from events elsewhere. Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or very remote relations. Examples of major foreign policy decisions that were rooted in the principle of isolationism are the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 by which the US declared that the Western hemisphere was not open for European colonization, thus decreeing that it was an exclusive sphere of influence of the US and The refusal to join the League of Nations The Neutrality legislation of the 1930s The Neutrality Acts were designed to prevent the United States of America from being entangled in a possible foreign war. The demand for this type of legislation arose from American’s support of the policy of Isolationism and the conviction, fuelled by the Nye Committee report, that the U.S. entry into World War I had been a mistake. The series of Neutrality Acts imposed embargoes on trading in arms and war materials to any countries at war. American ships and citizens were then barred from traveling on belligerent ships or entering war zones. It believes that the best way to provide for the continued growth and development is by insulating the American experience from corrupting foreign influences

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