title: Cordon sanitaire
text: # Cordon sanitaire
  
  Cordon sanitaire (French pronunciation: ​) is French for "sanitary cordon". It may refer to:
  
  * Cordon sanitaire (medicine), a cordon that quarantines an area during an infectious disease outbreak
  * Cordon sanitaire (politics), refusal to cooperate with certain political parties
  * Cordon sanitaire (international relations), a French foreign policy of containing Soviet and German influence in interwar Europe
  * Externalization (migration), specifically efforts to enlist third countries to prevent asylum seekers from arriving at a border
  