Isolationism had failed, and internationalism was the only doctrine possible. In the post-Cold War world, it was accepted that the US had to be deeply involved in global affairs.

Excavating the tension between isolationism and internationalism can help restore prudence to U.S. statecraft. Kupchan seeks to do just that in his new book. We present here two timely excerpts.

Why We Need a New Left Internationalism Neither neoliberal globalization nor populist isolationism offers a workable path forward. Leon Fink January 4, 2017 ...

Scholars talked about the motives behind U.S. foreign policy and their relation to imperialism, isolationism, and American exceptionalism. The roundtable discussion was titled "Framing the History ...

The No. 1 and No. 2 GOPresidential possibilities last week effectively laid the specter of Republican isolationism. They removed the broad objectives of U.S. foreign policy from 1944 campaign ...

The Founders rejected modern approaches in American foreign policy—whether power politics, isolationism or crusading internationalism. They especially disagreed with the “visionary, ...

Calvin Coolidge in 1925, for example, warned the nation to follow neither the Progressive internationalism of Wilson, nor its counterpoised isolationism: “It will be well not to be too much ...

The American internationalism of the 20th century has become a victim of its own success; its greatest goals – the defeat of Fascism and Communism – have been attained. And so it is perhap ...

But its traditional faith in “internationalism” as a moral principle has made its alternative, “isolationism,” into an epithet that stops conversation.

In reality, Japan is moving away from isolationism toward internationalism, and could now take up new international security responsibilities. Japan has never been pacifist.

Beyond ‘isolationism’ and ‘internationalism’ The Republicans opposed to aiding Ukraine aren’t necessarily pro-Putin; the debate over the war is about US foreign policy priorities.