President Theodore Roosevelt's Big Stick idea refers to the U.S. foreign policy of "speak softly, and carry a big stick". Roosevelt described his style as "the exercise of intelligent forethought and of decisive action sufficiently far in advance of any crisis". The idea of negotiating peacefully, simultaneously threatening with the "big stick", or the military, ties in heavily with the idea of Realpolitik, which implies a pursuit of political power that resembles Machiavellian ideals.
President William Howard Taft's idea of Dollar Diplomacy was to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. Some argue that Dollar Diplomacy was nothing new to the United States, as the use of the diplomacy to promote commercial interest dates from the early years of the Republic. However, under Taft, the state government was more active than ever in encouraging and promoting American bankers and industrialists in securing new opportunities abroad. They find that Dollar Diplomacy was designed to make both people in foreign lands and the American investors prosper. Dollar Diplomacy wasn't always peaceful though.
President Woodrow Wilson's Moral Diplomacy is a system in which support is given only to countries whose moral beliefs that are analogous to that of the nation. This promotes the growth of the nations ideals and damages the nations with different ideologies. It was used to support the counties with democratic governments and to economically injure the countries with non-democratic governments.
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