isolationismn.

1922 19th Cent. Nov. 731 Her isolationism..discovered that the strain of a formidable advance against freedom was more than it could bear.

1930 Headway June 112/2 Add to this the fact that half the people..who have emigrated to America in the last generation or so are Europeans who have left Europe because they wanted to get away from Europe, and the secret of America's ‘isolationism’ is very largely explained.

1931 Time & Tide Suppl. 4 July However much an instructed minority in America might be in favour of the abandonment of isolationism and a larger co-operation with Europe.

1934 Sun (Baltimore) 11 Apr. 10/3 Internationalism..would at least check the present steady drive toward..autarchy, political isolationism and Fascism.

1953 Manch. Guardian Weekly 27 Aug. 1 He was now ready to say that ‘unilateralism is the new face of isolationism’.

1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Oct. 274 Apparently, the period of enforced scientific isolationism imposed on them for several years has not destroyed this tradition.

1956 K. Clark Nude v. 167 The rigid isolationism of the Parthenon metopes.

1969 Nature 8 Feb. 524/2 One of the lamentable consequences of intellectual isolation is isolationism—the unconscious fear of exposing the inadequacy of one's achievement to one's fellow scientists.

1973 Guardian 25 Apr. 11/1 The difference..between the old isolationism and the new was that whereas the United States felt itself too good for the world in the 1930s, it now felt it was not good enough.