The Change Of The American Diplomatic Policy From Isolationism To Globalism

The isolationism policy and the globalism policy are two main diplomatic policies in the American history, which have affected the American formulation of diplomatic policy and diplomatic acts from the founding of the nation until now. Especially the thought of isolationism occupied the dominant position in the American thought of diplomacy until World War II. But after World War II broke out, the American leaders and populace gradually abandoned the thought of isolationism, the isolationism policy went bankrupt, and the American transferred to carry out the diplomatic policy of globalism.In the American history, the policy of isolationism usually related to the concepts of interventionism, nonetanglism and neutralism. Its production had the deep historical and religious roots, but the isolationism was officially established as the diplomatic policy after the publication of the Washington farewell speech. The isolationism policy occupied the dominant position in the diplomatic policy until America attending World War II. After World War II was over, America began to carry out the policy of globalism. After World War II, the America pursued the policy of globalism. Although this diplomatic policy's transformation took the American attending World War II as a frontier point, it did not reach its aim in one move but took a long time to transform. Therefore the first chapter of this article combs the reason for the policy of isolationism in detail, and the process and the performance of transformation from the isolationism to the policy of globalism, so as to obtain the perceptual understanding of this transformation of American foreign policy.A country's diplomatic policy has its close connection with its strength change and its benefit. Not only was American diplomatic policy transformation the inevitable result of explosive growth of American strength, but also the transformation had other reasons. Therefore, the second chapter of this article analyzes the reasons why the American diplomatic policy was transformed. Besides the historical and the traditional reasons, President Roosevelt also played a vital role in this significant transformation of American diplomatic policy.America which experienced the baptism of World War II became a pivotal country on the postwar international stage. Moreover, during this time America that had abandoned the policy of isolationism and carried out the policy of globalism had enough economical and military power and the political capital to strive for hegemony and expansion of the whole world. Therefore this foreign policy's transformation had the unnegligible influence on America itself and the entire international situation. Each American postwar government formulated different global strategy under the instruction of the policy of globalism to deal with the concrete international situation, which profoundly influenced Europe, Asia, the Middle East Islamic nations, African and Latin America's situation. That is the content of the third chapter of this article.The last part draws the conclusion. The policy of isolationism and the policy of globalism as the two main diplomatic policies in the American history are always with the American power and the international situation, although the form and the content are quite different. Both the choice of the policy of isolationism and the choice of the policy of globalism are the result of the function of the inside and outside environment of American, serving the American national interest uniformly and immensely.