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    Oct 20, 2020 5 minutes

    Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself From the World

    CHARLES A. KUPCHAN, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 464 PP., $29.95, OCTOBER 2020

    U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S BRAND OF “AMERICA FIRST” ISOLATIONISM has, over the past four years, repelled much of the foreign-policy establishment and horrified U.S. allies around the world. Ahead of this year’s presidential election, many among them hope the Trump years will end up as a bizarre detour, with a future Joe Biden administration steering the United States back to the brand of liberal internationalism that served the country so well for 75 years after World War II.

    To that, Charles Kupchan, a former senior official in the Clinton and Obama administrations (and sometime contributor to FOREIGN POLICY), has two things to say. First, Trump and his brand of isolationism are hardly aberrations; rather, a mix of isolationism, unilateralism, economic protectionism, and racially tinged nativism is “right out of the

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