Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...power. The opposite of isolationism is not necessarily intervention but constant, consistent engagement in the world. That is what you should ask of Bill Clinton: the foreign equivalent of his domestic "permanent campaign." If he can achieve that, there should be no reason for you to be an isolationist; but if he fails, America will be isolated...
...violence in Somalia and the stumbling in Haiti have stirred up isolationist forces at home. Congressional leaders such as Senators Robert C. Byrd (D.-W.Va.) and Robert J. Dole (R.-Kansas) are hoping to institute tough restrictions on future operations. They would like the U.S. to deploy military personnel abroad only when our immediate national interests were affected. In other words: not in Somalia, not in Haiti, not in Bosnia. Without active United States support, hopes of making the United Nations an effective institution would be put on hold and potentially shattered...
...Powell remains true to his past tendencies, his policies will not benefit his country. At this critical period for international relations, America cannot afford an isolationist president, no matter how loved...
...America's formerly isolationist foreign policy changed, Harvard moved beyond its role as the nation's educational leader into international pre-eminence. With a greater international emphasis, the University prospered, Chayes says, into its now almost universally recognized position as the "premier institution for advanced learning in the world...
...confer a legitimacy that unilateral efforts might otherwise lack (as in the Gulf War). "Or," says a self-described White House hawk, "the insistence on consensus can stay our hand if it can't be achieved." As Walter Lippmann once warned, multilateralism can become the internationalism of the isolationist...