The article examines the U.S. foreign policy amidst the decline of its interventionism. Topics discussed include the military and humanitarian interventions demonstrated by the U.S. in the 1990s and the 2000s, impact on European security of the diminishing U.S. interventionism, and the implications of the lack of U.S. involvement in the conflicts between China and other Southeast Asian nations. Association of the foreign policy of U.S. President Barack Obama with pragmatism is also mentioned