大棒政策 ：美国总统（西奥多）罗斯福提出和实行武力威胁和战争讹诈的外交政策。他曾在一次演说中援引了一句非洲谚语：“手持大棒口如蜜，走遍天涯不着急”来说明他任内的外交政策，后发展成所谓“大棒加胡萝卜政策”。20世纪初,美国凭借其大为增强的军事经济力量,积极推行向外扩张计划,加强了对拉丁美洲,特别是加勒比海地区的侵略。罗斯福根据马汉的制海权理论，主张以武力为后盾，迫使拉丁美洲国家“循规蹈矩”，听命于美国。在大棒政策的指导下，美国凭借武力，多次公开干涉拉丁美洲国家的内政。1903年，罗斯福参与策划并出动海军支持巴拿马政变。1904年，美国又出动军舰，迫使多米尼加共和国将一切关税交给美国管理。美国推行大棒政策的地区，并不限于拉丁美洲。罗斯福一再出动武装力量,肆意干涉他国的作法,激起拉丁美洲各国的强烈反对，也引起本国广大人民群众的不满。
Big stick policy
Big stick policy means the policy of threat by military forces and extorting by war. Theodore Roosevelt,who took the post of president in May 1916, brought forward the policy. He protested that America should extend toward outside with military force especially their supermacy of the sea. He thought that the best way was to say good words to people and to hold sticks in the hand. The policy was based on the American increasing status in the West after Spanish-American War. For example, American stirred up the Panama independence, and invaded and occupied Panama Canal Zone in 1903. From 1906-1909, American intervened in Cuba with military power, and so on.
