Essay On America's Foreign Policy

In a world made up of different countries, with different cultures, customs, and laws, the way the United States interacts with other countries is very important. America's foreign policy determines how we do that. In this paper, I will be briefly discussing the foreign policies of President's Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson. President Roosevelt's foreign policy was called "the big stick policy". He believed in negotiating peacefully, but carry the threat of military muscle behind it. President Taft's foreign policy, called "Dollar Diplomacy" was based on his belief that U.S. investments in foreign countries would lead to better foreign relations than use of the military. President Wilson wanted to spread democracy and believed the U.S. would benefit more from international peace than economic ventures or show of military power. President Roosevelt and President Taft wanted to establish the United States as a world power and held more of an imperialist view than President Taft. Roosevelt felt the United States should dominate the Western Hemisphere and Europe should stay out of our area (Monroe Doctrine). Taft tried to expand economic investments into China, but ended up decreasing our trade in the area. Taft was more of an idealist than Roosevelt or Taft, and …show more content…
I will show an example of this for the second part of my paper requirement. President Taft saw our military as a means to economic strength. An example of this is U.S helping oversee the management of corrupt and mismanaged economic affairs in the Caribbean by taking control of their customhouses. President Wilson's vision of bringing democracy and stabilization to countries rather than through military force didn’t always work. An example of this is trying to stabilize, with minimum military force, the Caribbean and Latin America. He ended up however, having a U. S. military force in the area for