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[[File:Monroe doctrine.jpg|thumb|300px|A 1912 newspaper cartoon highlighting America's influence in protecting neighboring countries in its "backyard" from European colonial expansion in the century following the [[Monroe Doctrine]]
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=== Latin America as America's backyard ===
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[[File:Tr-bigstick-cartoon.JPG|thumb|[[Theodore Roosevelt]]'s Big Stick policy and bully pulpit tactics, asserting American dominance over the Caribbean region
Since the establishment of the United States, [[international relations]] have been politically important in securing the nation’s developed democracy and influential power. With Latin America in closest proximity to the US, the neighboring continent has been labeled as “America’s Backyard.” In attempts to further economic development, the US government has exercised many strategies towards Latin America, especially over the past half century, including the [[Alliance for Progress]].
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A number of European commentators have contended that US foreign policy in the Middle East has (intentionally or otherwise) had the effect of turning the Middle East into America's new "backyard": a new epicenter within which the US is trying to exhort influence on political developments through regime change and political pressure which resembles past US actions in Latin America.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |url=http://mondediplo.com/2007/11/03mideast| title = The United States' new backyard |accessdate=2010-02-28| author = Alain Gresh|date=2007-11-03
| publisher= [[Le Monde Diplomatique]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal| doi = 10.3917/crii.044.0165
| issn = 1777-554X | volume = 44 | issue = 3| pages =
| title = Philippe Droz-Vincent Vertiges de la puissance : le " moment américain " au Moyen-Orient Paris, La Découverte, 2007, 370 pages.| journal = Critique Internationale| year = 2009| doi-access = free}}</ref>
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=== China ===
China's backyard has traditionally been [[Southeast Asia]], but recently is beginning to expand into Russia's old near abroad Central Asia and even parts of South Asia with infrastructure projects in places like Kazakhstan, Iran, and Pakistan. There were times when Central Asia was also under the Chinese sphere of influence, especially during the [[Han dynasty]] ([[Protectorate of the Western Regions]], [[Han-Dayuan war]]) and [[Tang dynasty]] ([[Anxi Protectorate]]).<ref name=":0" />
=== France ===
France maintains a relationship with its former African colonies that are considered to be the nation's pré carré (backyard). This is part of the ideology popularly known as [[Francafrique]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Noubel|first=Filip|date=5 February 2020|title='Françafrique': A term for a contested reality in Franco-African relations|url=https://globalvoices.org/2020/02/05/francafrique-a-term-for-a-contested-reality-in-franco-african-relations/|access-date=27 August 2021|website=Global Voices|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Fröhlich|first=Silja|title=Africa and France: An unfulfilled dream of independence?|date=3 August 2020|url=https://www.dw.com/en/africa-and-france-an-unfulfilled-dream-of-independence/a-54418511|access-date=27 August 2021|work=Deutsche Welle|language=en-GB}}</ref>
== See also ==
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