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Non-interventionism is a foreign policy which holds that political rulers should avoid alliances with other nations and avoid all wars not related to direct territorial self-defense.A similar phrase is "strategic independence"(1)
In the United States, this foreign policy has been advocated at various times in the country's history, notably during the first century of US history. George Washington, the first US President, advised the country to avoid "foreign entanglements". Thomas Jefferson favored "peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none." John Quincy Adams wrote that the US "goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy."
The policy of non-intervention has been a serious issue for every major US war. During World War I, non-interventionists were smeared with the term "isolationist," though few anti-war activists of that time supported isolationism's key plank of economic nationalism. During the inter-war years, World War II, and the Korean War, the main proponents of non-interventionism were the Old Right. During the Viet Nam War, the New Left became the chief proponents of non-interventionism. Today in the US, both the "left" and "right" generally favor military interventionism; though the left prefers multi-lateral interventionism (through the UN, NATO and other collective security organizations), while the right prefers unilateral interventionism. Paleoconservatives, libertarians, and progressives are some of the few remaining people in the US who hold to non-interventionism in principle.
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