Which is why I get so frustrated by the silos that are erected around musical genres: especially classical, where often the worst culprits of this depressing isolationism come from within the industry itself.
The president gets stand-up support from a group of Republicans who are concerned about a potential wave of isolationism coming from "an unholy alliance" of right- and left-wing outriders in Congress who disdain the country's engagement in the world.
And we see the calls for isolationism, xenophobia, from those who would call for a rolling-back of the rights of people – people hunkering down in their own point of view, unwilling to engage in democratic debate – and those are impulses I think we can understand.
He rescued the Republican Party from isolationism and McCarthyism.
Let's be clear what the problem is: it's not just compassion fatigue, isolationism or disengagement from the world.
It is Bush's conversion from isolationism that impresses me, just as it is the lapse into isolationism on Kerry's part that makes me sceptical.
His book, One World (1943), largely an outgrowth of his travels, made a strong plea for postwar cooperation and was influential in turning many Republicans away from isolationism.
Before September 11 , 2001 his foreign policy seemed to be one of armed isolationism — of withdrawal from entangling obligations behind a scrim of bluster and anti-missile technology.
A third hero is Arthur H. Vandenberg, a leading Republican in the Senate, who had been converted from isolationism to internationalism by the experience of war.
But you never know," she says.Ahead of the Czech Republic's upcoming presidential election, she fears small mindedness, corruption and isolationism, be it from the EU or globalisation.
