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A 3 page research paper that examines U.S. foreign policy from 1900 through the Cold War era in regards to Latin America and U.S. inter-American policy. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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loosen the "leash that has bound the behavior of Latin American governments so closely to the whims of successive U.S. administrations" (Vickers 63). However, old habits are hard to break
and for 200 years U.S. foreign policy toward the rest of the Americas has been drive by the "need to protect U.S. security" and the "demands of domestic politics" (Vickers
63). Economic factors have played a role, but they have largely been secondary to considerations of geo-political strategy, particularly during the Cold War period, as during this era, security issues
"dominated all other policy considerations," providing the U.S. with a rational legitimization for hegemony (Vickers 63). Scholars are in agreement that three inter-connected goals have provided the motivation for U.S.
inter-American policy since the late nineteenth-century. These are to exclude a European presence from the Western Hemisphere, to expand trade and to maintain peace and stability (Gilderhus 312). A
stratagem has been to create an "informal empire without colonies" and this remained constant throughout the twentieth century (Gilderhus 312). A typical example of U.S. interventionism is when U.S. officials
took over the administration of customs houses in the Dominican Republic in 1905, which constituted the source of nearly all revenue-generating activity in this country (Gilderhus 312). This action was
rationalized by President Theodore Roosevelt on the grounds that the U.S. had an "obligations to intervene elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere when wrongdoing or impotence threatened civilized society" (Gilderhus 312).
According to historian Emily Rosenberg, this intervention was "an attempt by policymakers to find an alternative to colonialism that would still institute the supervision they deemed necessary for fiscal and
social reform" (Gilderhus 312). As this intimates, a typical feature of U.S. inter-American policy has been a form of paternalism that has viewed the countries of Latin American as incapable
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