20
October
2009
October
2009
The Return of U.S. Big Stick and Dollar Diplomacy with Olive Branch to Sudan
The “comprehensive strategy to confront the serious and urgent situation in Sudan” President Obama outlined yesterday was far from anything new in American diplomatic affairs, which is not to say ineffective. Actually, the shift in policy marks a sharp return to diplomatic tactics the U.S. perfected during its expansionist phase in the 19th and early 20th centuries: ‘big stick’ and ‘dollar’ diplomacy. Here is how the two policies worked then and are intended to now…
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