Big sticks, gun boats and dollar diplomacy were instruments of Yankee hegemony.
Each year, the foreign aid bill seeks to use dollar diplomacy to compel political change in allies and enemies alike.
Social conservatives and political liberals will find more of an audience for their moral agendas in the months to come, and dollar diplomacy will suffer.
The United States felt obligated, through the Dollar Diplomacy, to uphold economic and political stability.
The monopolistic interests had to be destroyed at home and their influence in foreign policy dispelled, and thus Wilson's initial rejection of "dollar diplomacy."
Throughout 1989 China had been concerned at what it described as Taiwan's "dollar diplomacy" aimed at "buying" recognition from a number of poorer countries.
President Taft realized that by instituting Dollar Diplomacy, it would be pernicious to the financial gain of other countries.
Dollar Diplomacy wasn't always peaceful.
Taft, defended his Dollar Diplomacy as an extension of the Monroe Doctrine.
While serving President Roosevelt, Knox worked hard to implement the concept of Dollar Diplomacy.