{"id":738733,"date":"2026-07-02T10:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T10:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/738733\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T10:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T10:41:15","slug":"250-years-us-global-policy-isolationism-or-interventionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/738733\/","title":{"rendered":"250 years US global policy: isolationism or interventionism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For 250 years, <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/united-states-of-america\/t-19065189\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US<\/a>\u00a0 foreign policy has shaped global affairs through both military intervention and diplomacy. This DW video examines the debate over isolationism versus engagement, drawing on data showing more than 500 US interventions from the 1800s to today. From Latin America and <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/vietnam\/t-66142589\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vietnam<\/a> to <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/iraq\/t-19037666\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iraq<\/a> and the Middle East, goals have shifted from economic interests to anti-communism, humanitarian missions and counterterrorism. At the same time, the US helped build international treaties and alliances, even as recent administrations have stepped back from multilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For 250 years, US\u00a0 foreign policy has shaped global affairs through both military intervention and diplomacy. This DW&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-738733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}