Isolationist sentiment seems to be on the rise in the United States. At an annual
foreign policy event in Halifax in Canada, US Senator Lindsay Graham warned about the risk of an “unholy alliance” developing between the far left and far right that calls for greater US
retrenchment from the world – and, potentially, a new era of isolationism. Or neo-isolationism.
Such an inward focus is likely sound meet with the approval of an increasingly domestically-occupied public. Last year, 49 percent of Americans told Pew Research that they believed the US should “mind its own business” and let other nations get along on their own. That was up from 30 percent in 2002. This year, a survey by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs showed – perhaps not surprisingly – that nine out of ten US citizens think it is more important for the future of the United States to fix pressing problems at home than to address challenges to the United States from abroad.
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