non-interventionism

(noun)

Non-interventionism, the diplomatic policy whereby a nation seeks to avoid alliances with other nations in order to avoid being drawn into wars not related to direct territorial self-defense, has had a long history in the United States.

Related Terms

Examples of non-interventionism in the following topics:

  • Isolationism

    • Isolationism or non-interventionism was a tradition in America's foreign policy for its first two centuries.
    • For the first 200 years of United States history, the national policy was isolationism and non-interventionism.
    • Non-interventionism continued throughout the nineteeth century.
    • Yet non-interventionist sentiment remained; the U.S.
    • Non-interventionism took a new turn after the Crash of 1929.

  • Issues with the Traditional Political Spectrum

    • Other axes include: the focus of political concern (communitarianism vs. individualism), responses to conflict (conversation vs. force), the role of the church (clericalism vs. anticlericalism), foreign policy (interventionism vs. non-interventionism), and freedom (positive liberty vs. negative liberty).

  • World War II

    • The war in Europe split the American people into two distinct groups: non-interventionists and interventionists.
    • However, there were still many who held on to the age-old tenets of non-interventionism.
    • Non-interventionists rooted a significant portion of their arguments in historical precedent, citing events such as Washington's farewell address and the failure of World War I.
    • Domestic support for non-interventionism disappeared.
    • Compare and contrast the arguments made by interventionists and non-interventionists with respect to American involvement in World War II

  • Span of Government

    • Political interventionism can include methods such as sanctions on a foreign economy or international trade with similar results to protectionism, or other international sanctions
    • Interventionism is a term for a policy of non-defensive (proactive) activity undertaken by a nation-state, or other geo-political jurisdiction of a lesser or greater nature, to manipulate an economy or society.
    • The most common applications of the term are for economic interventionism (a state's intervention in its own economy), and foreign interventionism (a state's intervention in the affairs of another nation as part of its foreign policy).
    • Political interventionism can include methods such as sanctions on a foreign economy or international trade with similar results to protectionism, or other international sanctions through international cooperation decisions guarding international law or global justice.

  • Interventionism

    • As the world was quickly drawn into WWII, the United States' isolationist policies were replaced by more interventionism.
    • The war in Europe split the American people into two distinct groups: non-interventionists and interventionists.
    • After WWII, the United States took a policy of interventionism in order to contain communist influence abroad.
    • The US was not merely non-isolationist (i.e. the US was not merely abandoning policies of isolationism), but actively intervening and leading world affairs.
    • After WWII, the US's foreign policy was characterized by interventionism.

  • The Democratic Party

    • In foreign policy, internationalism (including interventionism) was a dominant theme from 1913 to the mid-1960s.

  • Telephone and Internet Polling

    • The difference between probability samples (where the inclusion probabilities for all units of the target population is known in advance) and non-probability samples (which often require less time and effort but generally do not support statistical inference) is crucial.
    • Probability samples are highly affected by problems of non-coverage (not all members of the general population have Internet access) and frame problems (online survey invitations are most conveniently distributed using e-mail, but there are no e-mail directories of the general population that might be used as a sampling frame).
    • Due to the lack of sampling frames, many online survey invitations are published in the form of an URL link on web sites or in other media, which leads to sample selection bias that is out of research control and to non-probability samples.
    • In addition to refusing participation, terminating surveying during the process, or not answering certain questions, several other non-response patterns can be observed in online surveys, such as lurking respondents and a combination of partial and item non-response.
    • For instance, there is some potential for interviewer bias (e.g. some people may be more willing to discuss a sensitive issue with a female interviewer than with a male one), telephone polling cannot be used for non-audio information (graphics, demonstrations, taste/smell samples), and it is unreliable for consumer surveys in rural areas where telephone density is low .

  • National Security Policy

    • National security policies, designed to protect the state, include military security as well as non-military security.
    • Security threats involve not only conventional foes, such as other nation-states, but also non-state actors, like violent non-state actors (al Queda, for example), narcotic cartels, multinational corporations and non-governmental organizations.

  • Non-Democratic Governments: Monarchy, Oligarchy, Technocracy, and Theocracy

    • Governments tend to fall between traditionally democratic and non-democratic forms.
    • However, some monarchies are non-hereditary.

  • Latinos

    • On average, Latino citizens continue to vote at significantly lower rates than non-Latino white voters.
    • On average Latino citizens continue to vote at significantly lower rates that non-Latino white voters.