A recurrent debate at the center of U.S. foreign policy has pitted internationalists against isolationists. Internationalists favor an active role for the country in world affairs, including strong support for international institutions and a generally...

Isolationism is the belief that the United States must limit its involvement in world affairs. Although deeply ingrained in the national character, isolationism grew into a dominant issue only after American participation in World War I. Prior to that...

Isolationism is a foreign policy strategy in which a nation announces that it has absolutely no interest in international affairs, nor in the affairs of other nations, as long as they do not affect any vital interest of its own; this implies a...

Isolationism is a foreign policy which combines a non-interventionist military policy and a political policy of economic nationalism (protectionism). In other words, it asserts both of the...

What's going on here? The stinging defeat of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) - the result of 51 Republicans courageously voting their consciences rather than yielding to pressure to approve a fatally flawed treaty - is being portrayed by the Clinton administration,...

Taxes,economic policy, relief for the hard hit, anxiety about where the country is heading: A sharp turn of focus from foreign to domestic concerns is evident in Washington. It represents not just the approach of a political season or a swing of the pendulum...

A move to protect threatened American industries and workers from foreign competition would be a serious mistake that would jeopardize the sizable benefits of free trade, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday."Restricting trade by imposing tariffs, quotas and other barriers is exactly the wrong...

realist intellectuals' spring assault on the Israel lobby is, today's Times bore it out. Its polls show that most Americans feel that Israel's indiscriminate destruction in Lebanon will lead to a wider war, and that we don't have a dog in that fight and shouldn't...