Upon taking office, Roosevelt was unwilling to risk raising controversial foreign policy issues while implementing the New Deal. He supported the Stimson Doctrine of non-recognition of Japan's conquest of Manchuria, expanding trade to promote recovery, and implementing the Good Neighbor Policy toward Latin America. While the Good Neighbor Policy was designed to bring an end to American intervention in Latin America, Roosevelt cast the policy in global terms. He saw the Good Neighbor as a means to make concrete his internationalist vision for American foreign policy that could be applied elsewhere in the world.
Imperialism, Media, and the Good Neighbor: New Deal Foreign Policy and United States Shortwave Broadcasting to Latin America