isolation

eristys, isolaatio

eristäytyminen

erillään olo puhekieltä The state of being isolated, detached, or separated.
The state of being away from other people.
The act of isolating.
puhekieltä The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
1975, W. Raymond Duncan, “Problems of Cuban Foreign Policy”, chapter 20 of w:Irving Louis Horowitz|Irving Louis Horowitz (editor), Cuban Communism, Fifth Edition, Transaction (publisher, 1985), http://books.google.com/books?id=IK-W0rVY8IIC&pg=PA486&dq=isolation page 486:

As of 1975, diplomatic ostracism is still imposed by the Organization of American States (OAS). The inter-American community also exercises a trade embargo against Cuba. But even within this context of hemispheric isolation, Havana’s diplomacy is strikingly contradictory.

Israel could offer to ease North Korea’s isolation with diplomatic recognition, (..) ¶ (..) But Washington’s strategy of increasing North Korean isolation left no room for back-channel talks with Tel Aviv, (..)

It Europe now pressed Washington to begin direct talks with Tehran, but Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, Rice’s point man on Iran, still stressed that diplomatic isolation of Iran—and not diplomatic engagement—was the only acceptable approach for dealing with the Iranian nuclear challenge.