American World Policies

To the practical man who wants to know what to do and when and how to do it, general principles seem unreal and valueless. He is interested in the decisions of the next few mont...

For the United States to attempt to secure an economic internationalism, which shall form the basis of an enduring peace, is to enter upon a task which bristles with difficultie...

An internationalism, which will bind the nations together into one economic unit, can be secured only as a result of a further political and economic development, limiting the p...

While the imperialistic venture of 1898 was premature and did not lead, as had been expected, to a conscious participation of America in the international scramble for colonies,...

No nation in its foreign policy is completely disinterested, in the sense that it willingly abandons or sacrifices its larger interests. What generosity it displays is usually i...

If the entire imperialistic process could be directed by one omniscient individual, representing the interest of all industrial and agricultural countries, the progress of imper...

To ascribe world events to the action of a single individual is a naive yet persistent manner of thought. All over Europe men blamed the war upon a wicked Kaiser, a swaggering,...

We have seen how in Europe the outward expansion, which leads to international friction and war, has been due to deep-lying economic motives acting on ordinarily peace-loving po...

These are three ways in which the United States might conceivably attempt to promote the international adjustments without which peace cannot be secured. We might seek to "go it...

A nation, though economically complete, in the sense that it could, if it desired, maintain its population upon its own resources may yet be lured into an imperialistic and warl...

The Great War has thrown America back upon itself. It has come as a test and challenge to all our theories. Suddenly, yet subtly, it has shaken our optimism and undermined our f...

"The free West Indian negro," writes Sir Sidney Olivier, "is not only averse as a matter of dignity to conducting himself as if he were a plantation slave, and bound to work eve...

What determines whether a backward country is to be exploited by its own people or by some beneficent imperialistic power is not any consideration of its own welfare, but the ch...

If at home we have a firm basis for national development, if we grow up as a Great Power beyond the range of fierce conflicts between the nations, the opportunity will be offere...

To the average American of a few years ago the maintenance of peace seemed as natural and easy as breathing. Except for our brief and episodical conflict with Spain we had had n...

One of the greatest difficulties in the problem of working out an international colonial policy is our neglect of the immediate and overwhelming influence of colonies, as of oth...

We have seen that the problem of peace cannot be solved without at the same time avoiding the economic conflicts now sundering the nations. We have seen that these divisive inte...

It is a significant fact that despite a democratic opposition to imperialism it is precisely the democratic nations, England and France, which are most imperialistic. The Britis...

The direct competition between great industrial nations for the products and profits of the backward countries would suffice to create an international antagonism even if no oth...

It was in the year 1898 that the United States made its earliest plunge into imperialism. Then for the first time we secured "dominions beyond the sea"; dominions too thickly po...

For decades, the foreign and domestic policies of the United States were determined by our ambition to subdue and people a wilderness. Our immediate profit, our ultimate destiny...

XIII NATURAL RESOURCES AND PEACE . . . . . . . . . 169 XIV AN ANTIDOTE TO IMPERIALISM . . . . . . . . . . 186 XV AMERICAN INTERESTS ABROAD . . . . . . . . . . 201 XVI PACIFISM S...

VI THE INTEGRATION OF THE WORLD . . . . . . . . . 75 VII THE ROOT OF IMPERIALISM . . . . . . . . . . . 85 VIII IMPERIALISM AND WAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 IX INDUSTRIAL INV...