ISOLATIONIST FOREIGN POLICY IN AMERICA

Isolationist Foreign Policy in America

Isolationist Foreign Policy in America

Introduction

Isolationism, a former U.S. foreign policy that shunned alliances with other nations to preserve their freedom of action in international affairs Never applied in the economic or cultural isolationism because it was thought primarily to keep the young nation away from the nationalist and dynastic conflicts of the European powers. The United States maintained the role of peripheral state in the nineteenth century despite its important industrial and maritime development. His foreign policy was isolationist in the beginning of his nation-building, adopting protectionism in trade and heterodox autonomy from Britain, the metropolis. However, although there was no express agreement, British followed the same guidelines to prevent European intervention in America, this is the spirit of the Monroe Doctrine, and despite its isolationist attitude, tried to make the most of the weaknesses of the European powers in order to find a way autonomous (Doenecke, 2002).

But it would be the twentieth century to launch the U.S. the international arena and the intervention policies of global containment of communism and support the development of Europe and Japan. The United States was a nation born of the tenets of the French Revolution and with sense deterministic political values, social and democratic and thus entered the First and Second World Wars. Would the postwar II that would change the course of this primeval American foreign policy in the world would transform of their idealism, but not all, of pure pragmatism diplomat. Post-Cold War has left U.S. foreign policy and harmless Secretary of State for today and look for a time the new procedures and objectives to follow. In a world power centers multipolarizado the globe are undefined but American foreign policy remains one of them (Doenecke, 2002).

Discussion

The United States maintained the role of peripheral state in the nineteenth century despite its important industrial and maritime development. His foreign policy was isolationist, adopting protectionism in trade and heterodox autonomy from Britain. However, although there was no express agreement, British followed the same guidelines to prevent European intervention in America. This is the spirit of the Monroe Doctrine. Despite its isolationist attitude, tried to make the most of the weaknesses of the European powers in order to find a way autonomous.

U.S. isolationism has its roots in the War of Independence of the United States and its separation from Europe. Only military necessity forced the Continental Congress to sign a formal alliance with France in 1778. The early leaders supporting trade treaties that would lead to an expansion of trade, but warned against military and political commitments in the long run what it implied. President George Washington in his Farewell Address (1796), advised Americans to stay away from permanent alliances and President Thomas Jefferson also warned against "troublesome alliances."

The political conditions that supported the isolation began to change at the beginning of the twentieth century. The emergence of Germany and Japan threatened the established order in Europe and the Far ...