0 the practice or policy of a government taking action to become involved, either in the problems of another country, or in the economy of its own country:
UN interventionism
He set out a doctrine of humanitarian interventionism.
1 involvement in influencing a country's economy, or the belief that this is the right thing to do:
economic/government interventionism
She criticised the Western policy of military interventionism in the internal affairs of other states.
Ministers defend their new interventionism as an attempt to help transforming industries.
I believe the idea of liberal interventionism will survive as the best way of defending our interests and the moral way to promote our values.
The second stage, interventionism, was inspired by progressive ideas that ushered in the new century and emphasised the possibilities of social engineering.
In light of the nowprevalent view that global economic integration ' crowds out ' the state, this link between economic openness and domestic interventionism seems counterintuitive.
Futurism, for instance, played an important role in interventionism, but other radical artists undermined the nations' war efforts.
Now, is the prospect of an endless interventionism something to be feared, because of the increasing power of the state that accompanies it?
But in order for a movement of syndicalist interventionism to emerge two factors were particularly important, perhaps decisive.
