US post-war grand strategy followed an open-door economics-and-control playbook
Evidence
Scholar-activist Sidney Lens summarized US aims as follows: to establish an “open door” policy that allowed it to enter into otherwise blocked-off markets and establish multinational trade as the pillar of economic policy; to weaken and isolate forces that opposed the open door (which included both the former colonial powers as well as radical nationalists and communists); and to gain, as President Kennedy put it, “influence and control” over pliant governments, typically right-wing, through “grants and loans with conditions attached to them, military aid, equipment and training of puppet armies, military pacts, CIA-sponsored revolts, and on occasion, when these other methods were inadequate … direct intervention by U.S. armed forces themselves.” — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 246
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Connects to the law-merchant material: both are about how economic access is institutionalized and enforced through coercion and incentives rather than markets alone.
Related
- US anti-colonialism aimed to supplant old empires for its own economic access (similarity 0.85)
- US anticolonialism selectively served its own market access goals (similarity 0.85)