HISTORY
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM
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A policy of not participating in international trade or diplomacy.
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Sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s.
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Unprocessed natural products used in production (cotton, rubber, palm oil, sugar, wheat, guano, metals, and minerals)
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A policy of not participating in international trade or diplomacy.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Isolationism is a political philosophy advocating a national foreign policy that opposes involvement in the political affairs, and especially the wars, of other countries. Thus, isolationism fundamentally advocates neutrality and opposes entanglement in military alliances and mutual defense pacts.
Detailed explanation-2: -Examples of Isolationism in International Relations The foreign policy of neutral countries during the Cold War, in which countries such as Sweden and Switzerland sought to avoid alignment with either the US or the Soviet Union and to maintain a position of neutrality in international affairs.
Detailed explanation-3: -Beginning with George Washington’s presidency, the United States sought a policy of isolationism and neutrality with regards to the internal affairs of other nations.
Detailed explanation-4: -isolationism, national policy of avoiding political or economic entanglements with other countries.
Detailed explanation-5: -Isolationism insisted that the nation had no external interests that merited the use of force, that events outside the hemisphere were inconsequential. In apparent contrast, internationalism declared that U.S. interests existed wherever governments challenged peace or human rights.