Big stick ideology, big stick diplomacy, or big stick policy refers to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy: "speak softly, and carry a big stick." you could have search that. hope it works.
Theodore Rosevelt's Big Stick Diplomacy was to increase US intvestments in businesses. And to tell other countries that we have a strong military "big stick" so we can speak softly which means we don't need to effort much then we can get what the US wants.
