RETREATISM Definition & Meaning

retreatism

[ ri-tree-tiz-uhm ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

Sociology.

the rejection of culturally prescribed goals and the conventional means for attaining them.

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“The governor has an opportunity to contrast a bold, well-thought-out foreign policy with Mr. Trump’s opaque retreatism,” Ms. Strassel wrote.

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The New York Herald Tribune, aware that isolationism was not the word for the Hoover Doctrine, decided to call it "retreatism."

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