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by Walter Chaw The urban surfaces of Americana are lent the sheen of Edward Hopper's neon isolationism by cinematographer Juan Ruiz Anchía in the appropriately named Confidence, which finds director James Foley back on noir ground, where his footing is firmest.

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It offered free housing to those impacted by Trump's attempted ban on travel from some Muslim countries, and ran a Super Bowl ad critical of isolationism.

The slogan, popularized by 1930s Nazi sympathizers, has raised fears of a new era of zero - sum politics and isolationism, as well as worries about which Americans will, in fact, be put first.

«Isolationism is the policy or doctrine of isolating one's country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances, foreign economic commitments, foreign trade, international agreements, etc., seeking to devote the entire efforts of one's country to its own advancement and remain at peace by avoiding foreign entanglements and responsibilities.»

The isolationism of the first policy can only enhance conflict by its collective selfishness and head toward future wars in a world meant by nature to be one.

Our selfish isolationism, our refusal to participate in the effort to build a world order of peace and justice through the League of Nations, our aloofness from the World court, our scuttling of the London Economic Conference, our interference with the free flow of goods by high tariffs, our Oriental Exclusion Act, our arming of Japan for her war upon China, are a few of the counts in the indictment which the God and Father of all mankind must bring against us.

But whether it was the by - product of Burton K. Wheeler's progressivist politics, Joseph P. Kennedy's Anglophobia, Charles A. Lindbergh's racial and eugenic speculations, or Robert A. Taft's business - oriented conservatism, isolationism was thought to be finished as a serious force in American public life after December 7, 1941.

Within five years of President Kennedy's assassination in 1963, however, the postwar internationalist consensus disintegrated, and isolationism reemerged as a powerful force in American public life: not an isolationism fearful of America becoming contaminated by the world but the isolationism of the New Left, convinced that America itself was poison in and for the world.

But lurking beneath the surface of this argument are arguably much darker sentiments, with some questioning whether Farage's position is influenced by fear of the other and isolationism.

Because of the so called revolution in communication, brought about by the newest technological discoveries, distances relatively become closer, borders become more porous, interrelations become more dynamic, isolationism is replaced by openness, nations seek new ways to develop more positive and meaningful co-existence, and thus the awareness of the plurality of the world becomes more apparent.

In the book you have an essay by Trevor B. McCrisken about the Future of Republican Party foreign policy, does it (and your own opinion) see a return to renewed isolationism?

President Obama implored the next generation of U.S. military leaders not to give in to isolationism or pull back from U.S. leadership in the world, drawing a contrast with a foreign policy vision that's been laid out by Trump.

While a lesser movie would have addressed this conflict by simply arguing that isolationism is wrong, «Black Panther» recognizes that the alternatives are not necessarily better.

Erik Killmonger, the movie's chief villain (poignantly portrayed by an Oscar - worthy Michael B. Jordan), may be correct when he points out that Wakanda's isolationism has selfishly condemned oppressed people throughout the world to a terrible fate.

But Ben is also burdened by a severe case of isolationism, of minding his own business to a fault.

It's clear from the civil war that erupts at the end of the film that Wakandans are divided as to how to interact with the rest of the world, and on the issue of whether isolationism and / or neutrality in the face of colonial oppression equals complicity - by - silence.

Reshaped by the director from a story by stand - up comedian John Ridley, the film shifts into a more conventional «men on a mission» structure near the film's final quarter when Barlow gets kidnapped and tortured in a large bunker by a dedicated Hussein soldier (a very good Saïd Taghmaoui), who delivers a riveting diatribe that touches on both Michael Jackson and American isolationism.

So it makes sense that T'Challa wouldn't have been the first king of Wakanda to tug against its tradition of isolationism — if you remember, Civil War was kick - started by the deaths of a team of Wakandans on a «humanitarian outreach mission,» presumably at the behest of King T'Chaka.

Globalization is being pressured by isolationism, and the winning investments of the last 8 years are being eclipsed.

And ending isolationism) and really only joined the Axis because they were disrespected by the European powers at the Treaty of Versailles to end WW1

Looking positively frequent in comparison, this year's Yokohama Triennale — three of these for every one of König's, for those who failed maths — adopts the titular theme of Islands, Constellations & Galapagos, intending thereby to refer to the contradictory nature of our current reality: strongly interconnected on the digital level but also ever more defined geopolitically by protectionism and isolationism, these driven in turn by populism and xenophobia.

Informed by the tradition of American Realism and painters such as Thomas Hart Benton, Reginald Marsh and Ben Shahn, Rothko's urban - inspired tableaus convey a sense of isolationism distinctive among his contemporaries.

All too often we hear of off grid living as a form of isolationism, or a retreat from coming social and environmental challenges, but the fact is that we are all interconnected — and many of the back - to - the - land types will find themselves equally impacted by the effects of resource depletion or climate change.