Howard Taft's dollar diplomacy emphasized using economic influence and American financial power to promote US interests abroad, while Teddy Roosevelt's foreign policy approach was more based on "speak softly and carry a big stick" - using military power to assert US influence. Taft also focused on promoting stability and fostering economic development through investment in foreign countries, whereas Roosevelt was more focused on using military intervention when necessary.
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The Good Neighbor Policy
The Good Neighbor Policy
Roosevelt's approach to foreign relations was known as the "Big Stick Policy" or "Speak softly and carry a big stick." This approach emphasized negotiating peacefully while maintaining the willingness to use military force if necessary to protect American interests.
Dollar diplomacy is a foreign policy approach that uses economic power to influence other countries' policies and behaviors, often involving the promotion of business interests to achieve diplomatic goals.
Diplomacy
The Dollar Diplomacy
Taft's MAIN foreign policy goals were to maintain the open door to Asia and preserve stabability in Latin America.
The Confederation government's policies concerning diplomacy stated that states had the capacity to conduct diplomacy. This gave them the right for their own diplomacy as well as foreign diplomacy.
One type of foreign policy (e.g. the way a nation interacts with other nations) is diplomacy (e.g. one nation trying to convince another nation to do something through conversation or non-violent leverage).
Diplomacy
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