http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/american-expansion Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 01 May 2026 06:46:53 -0400 Fri, 01 May 2026 06:46:53 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/114/examining-us-foreign-policy-refuting-american-isolationism By Peter Crowley - From before its birth to the present, the expansion of US power has been analogous to an ever-expanding hand upon the globe. Despite some of today's historically inaccurate politicians citing a revered past of non-interventionism and isolationism, the mainstay of American foreign policy has been one of expansionism and interventionism. Sparse periods of aloofness to the world are an anomaly rather than the norm. Hence, when the slogan “Bring America Back” rings out at various political campaigns, whatever is meant by it, it cannot mean a desire to return to a time when America was... Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:23 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/114/examining-us-foreign-policy-refuting-american-isolationism