Roosevelt-Corollary

The Roosevelt Corollary ( engl. the Roosevelt Corollary ) was promulgated on December 6, 1904 by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in his annual message to Congress as an addition to the Monroe Doctrine.

By Corollary Roosevelt changed the previous interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine crucial. Had they rejected only a right of intervention of the European powers in the Americas, so Roosevelt postulated in addition an explicit function referee of the USA, coupled with a right of intervention in internal American conflicts. Even if the U.S. had intervened repeatedly in conflicts other American States before 1904, this was with the original content of the Monroe Doctrine, according to which the American States alone clarify their affairs without Europe, not clearly compatible. Former U.S. interventions had accordingly also always found a partly vehement opposition in their own country. President Roosevelt thus broke with a long tradition of isolationism in American foreign policy. He came across too harsh criticism in his own country: So he was accused of acting against the precepts of the Constitution of the United States of America, breaching international law as well as to operate a militaristic and imperialist foreign policy.

The " Roosevelt Corollary " to the Monroe Doctrine in part:

" If a nation shows that it knows how to act sensibly and with strength and decency in social and political issues that it keeps order and pays its debts, it needs no interference from the United States to be feared. Permanent wrongdoing or impotence, which amounts to a loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine like them in flagrant cases such wrongdoing or impotence, if force even against their will, to exercise an international police power. "

The Roosevelt Corollary, therefore, is also typical of the high phase of modern imperialism, in which the United States after an initial reluctance on the ambition of the European colonial powers involved for the " division of the world ". As a result, the United States intervened in various Central American countries with military interventions and partly long-term stationing of troops, such as in Haiti, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic.

Once under President Herbert Hoover relations with South and Central America had significantly improved, and the last U.S. troops from Nicaragua and Haiti had been recalled, recanted his successor, Franklin Roosevelt, the Corollary final order as part of the Good Neighbor policy of his predecessor other ways the intra- American cooperation (and control) to tread.

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