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Roosevelt v. Roosevelt: Two Models for US Foreign Policy in the Western Hemisphere

The article contrasts two historical U.S. foreign-policy models in the Western Hemisphere — Theodore Roosevelt’s interventionist Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, which justified direct military and economic control to enforce order and U.S. interests, and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy, which emphasized nonintervention, respect for sovereignty, and cooperative relations; it uses this comparison to suggest lessons for contemporary U.S. actions in Latin America.