abstract:Nonintervention or non-interventionism is a foreign policy which holds that political rulers should avoid alliances with other nations, but still retain diplomacy, and avoid all wars not related to direct self-defense. This is based on the grounds that a state should not interfere in the internal politics of another state, based upon the principles of state sovereignty and self-determination.
Democracy and human rights should replace nationalism, non-interventionism and a knee-jerk anti-Americanism as the values inspiring Mexican foreign policy, he argued.
The government promises businesses support but no interference - a policy of "positive non-interventionism" vital to its role as a financial and trading center.