American isolationism is a foreign policy current that claims the United States' advantage and right to act unilaterally in international politics.
Isolationism will avoid interference in conflicts and permanent alliance commitments outside the American continent, and often emphasizes US economic independence, but does not reject diplomatic and economic cooperation as such.
American isolationism can be said to have been expressed already in President George Washington's farewell speech, in which he called on the American people to take advantage of their isolated location in the world, and to avoid obligations in foreign policy, especially to European powers.
Thus, authors such as Walter McDougall defend this position, as they argue that American isolationism in the 1800s allowed the creation of its own culture, and a different political identity from that of Great Britain, France and Spain, the main powers of the time.
Thus, given the non-dependence of America on these countries, the United States was able to consolidate itself as a sovereign nation and without political ties with other powers.
Fundamentally, the vast territorial extension of the United States (with its enormous amount of resources) and its remoteness from Europe were the two main factors that allowed the development of this isolationism.
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