oosevelt and of Woodrow Wilson have much in common. Their ideas originated in the setting of progressivism, and it could be said that their policies represented "two different progressive approaches" to defining America's place in the world.1 The actual results of their policies were also more similar than different.
Wilson, like Theodore Roosevelt, did not shrink from naked military intervention in Central America and the Caribbean. The high minded phrases he used were somewhat different from TR's justifications, and closer to contemporary American usage, but in Latin America it was still yanqui imperialism all the same. Theodore Roosevelt, like Wilson, sought to play the role of honest broker and peacemaker among the Great Powers with enough success, in the Russo Japanese War, to win the Nobel Peace Prize for himself.2
1Sean Dennis Cashman, America in the Age of the Titans (New York: New York University Press, 1988), 114.
2John Milton Cooper, Pivotal Decades (New York: W. W. Norton, 1990), 102 104.
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