According to Progressive Imperialism, the policy of extending the influence to regions in the world under the justification of opening trade becomes the norm. The military supremacy of the US enabled them to set conditions for expanding the markets to areas of the world were formerly there was only local or regional trade and together with the effort to gain economic control comes the political control exerted upon the Panama channel.
As more and more areas of influence come to be dictated by the logics of economic , the foreign policy focuses on using diplomatic means and if this fails the hard politics through military intervention and war are set.
Big stick policy <span>refers to U.S. </span>President Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy<span>: "speak softly, and carry a </span>big stick<span>."</span>
Uriah Stephens, pre-1882. Stephens (1821 - 1882) was a U.S. labor leader. He led nine Philadelphia garment workers to found the Knights of Labor in 1869, a more successful early national union.
The Berlin Conference ended with rules for Europe to take over Africa. This resulted in exploitation of African resources and a new chance at European imperialism.