

seek a policy to resist European colonialism in the Western hemisphere. The 19th century formed the roots of United States foreign interventionism, which at the time was largely driven by economic opportunities in the Pacific and Spanish-held Latin America along with the Monroe Doctrine, which saw the U.S. There have been two dominant schools of thought in the United States about foreign policy- interventionism, which encourages military, diplomatic, and economic intervention in foreign countries-and isolationism, which discourages these.

The objectives for these interventions have revolved around economy, territory, social protection, regime change, protection of US citizens and diplomats, policy change, empire, and regime building.

By the broadest definition of military intervention, the US has engaged in nearly 400 military interventions between 17, with half of these operations occurring since 1950 and over 25% occurring in the post- Cold War period. The United States has been involved in numerous foreign interventions throughout its history.
