Big Stick ideology

Big Stick (English for large lobe) a name for the foreign policy of Theodore Roosevelt, referring to the use of the U.S. Navy in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

In one of his early speeches as president of the United States Roosevelt quoted an old African proverb:

"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. "

"Speak softly and carry a big stick, [ then ] you're going to get far. "

Applied to politics means that politicians with a "big stick " - in Roosevelt's case, the Navy - to implement their policies without dictatorial act: the careful diplomatic relations and the affirmation of good intentions with a powerful military apparatus and a paired high economic power, which is unfavorable or hostile reactions to the diplomatic offer are much more difficult in a subtle way. With this based on the realpolitik negotiation strategy Roosevelt ran a successful expansion policy as U.S. president.

In a speech Roosevelt expressed the award for the first time at the Minnesota State Fair on September 2, 1901. However, he used it previously in a letter dated 26 January 1900, Henry W. Sprague, a member of the Union League Club.

The "Big Stick" Roosevelt's policies can be viewed as an extension of the Monroe Doctrine. While James Monroe in 1823, European nations urged not to intervene in what is happening in America, Roosevelt laid the principle states that the United States had the right to interfere in affairs of other nations in North and South America, to prevent other nations from there to intervene. Roosevelt did not use this proverb to inspire any wars or foreign policy conflicts, but the imagination of many publishers and cartoonists was inspired by the idea of the "Big Stick". Both Roosevelt opponents and friends saw the "Big Stick" to conclude that recalcitrant nations could be brought to heel by the show of force by the military. Roosevelt was inspired Of mapped with "his " big leg on numerous friendly and hostile cartoons.