nonintervention

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They remained until 1934, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt pulled them out as part of his new Good Neighbor Policy, which called for regional nonintervention.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2019

In a recent piece for the Atlantic, he offered what he called “A Practical Guide for Avoiding Fallacies on Syria,” which took aim at several popular arguments for nonintervention.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2017

The deaths represented China’s first combat troops killed in action since border clashes following its last war, with Vietnam in 1979, after which it espoused nonintervention in affairs abroad.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2016

“The government of Ecuador respects the principles of nonintervention in the affairs of other nations, does not meddle in electoral campaigns nor support any candidate in particular,” the Foreign Ministry statement said.

From Washington Post • Oct. 19, 2016

Wait, I have not finished..." he said to Prince Andrew, seizing him by the arm, "I believe that intervention will be stronger than nonintervention.

From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf