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• n  an advocate of isolationism in international affairs
• a  of or relating to isolationism

• Firmly for aid to Britain is a majority of the nation's press, but one isolationist organ last week stood in splendid isolation Scribner's Commentator, a magazine which was.
• The isolationist Burmese junta tried to shut out help from the rest of the world, while the Chinese, who were concerned about the Olympics and were already coping with the public .
• He found himself with some strange bedfellows in his isolationist bed: some of them had Communist whiskers.

• isolationistic

News & Articles

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• Five Best Friday Columns
  Michael Gerson in The Washington Post on Rand Paul's outsider status Sen. Rand Paul's defense of a neo-Confederate staff member, his anti-federal power stance, and his isolationist foreign policy make him too far outside the mainstream conservative viewpoint to be a Republican star, Gerson argues. "The triumph of his ideas and movement would fundamentally shift the mainstream and demolish a ...
  July 19, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News
• Rep. Peter King aims to save GOP from Sens. Rand Paul, Ted Cruz
  If he ultimately decides to run for president in 2016, Rep. Peter King will do it for one reason: to save the Republican party from the "isolationist" policies of Sen. Rand Paul and others. "It bothers me when the leading Republicans out there — someone like Rand Paul seems more ...
  July 19, 2013 - The Washington Times
• Scarborough Battles GOP Rep. King Over U.S. ‘Military Adventurism’: ‘It’s Not Our Job To Be World Policemen!’
  This morning on Morning Joe , host Joe Scarborough confronted Rep. Peter King (R-NY) over American "military adventurism" and the Republican Party's expansive foreign policy decisions of the past decade. The heated exchange came shortly after Rep. King expressed his contempt for the "isolationist" foreign policy views of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) ...
  July 19, 2013 - Mediaite

Quotes

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• Douglas Alexander in Dispatch Online
  We need to demonstrate by our deeds, words and our actions that we are internationalist, not isolationist, multilateralist, not unilateralist, active and not passive, and driven by core values consistently applied, not special interests,...
• President Bush in WZTV
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush says he's worried that the United States could become "isolationist and nervous."
• James Franco in Sacramento Bee
  Unfortunately, current conditions and emerging challenges have led some to pursue isolationist or protectionist energy policies, which could have severe consequences for the global economy and for global energy security over the longer term. It is... Rex Tillerson http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Tillerson&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFWGZc-HSAAWDT-ahl1Ww-dwmiRKQ EnergyCurrent http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.energycurrent.com/index.php%3Fid%3D4%26storyid%3D6767&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHZkKaX45MaWvyeRJecZdfvxrgiZA Nov 13, 2007 53991 71058 isolde I probably never would go see 'Tristan + Isolde' if I didn't have to go to the premiere," Franco said of the 2006 romance in which he starred.