The Monroe Doctrine in a Contemporary Perspective
Title | The Monroe Doctrine in a Contemporary Perspective PDF eBook |
Author | Denneth M. Modeste |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 367 |
Release | 2020-02-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1000034496 |
This book surveys the impact of the Monroe Doctrine on United States relations with Latin America, with a particular focus on the Caribbean Basin, since its proclamation in 1823. It explores the historical role of the Monroe Doctrine as the instrument to foreclose future European colonial adventures in the American hemisphere and to exclude from it any political system(s) deemed to be incompatible with the American political tradition. Modeste examines the elastic interpretations of the Monroe Doctrine to justify American territorial expansion and imperial ambitions, premised on a strategic question – the power controlling the Latin American/Caribbean trade routes and Sea Lines of Communication. Fundamental to the narrative is the linkage of the tenets of the Monroe Doctrine to contemporary local/regional crises where governments have applied extraordinary, extra-constitutional measures to exercise control or achieve political ends, mechanisms of peaceful conflict resolution failures, and subversive elements that use unorthodox methods to threaten the integrity of the state. Modeste also traces the transformation of the Monroe Doctrine from a unilateral policy declaration to a multilateral compact for the collective defence of the hemisphere.
The Monroe Doctrine and Mommsen's Law
Title | The Monroe Doctrine and Mommsen's Law PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Francis Adams |
Publisher | Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | Political Science |
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The Monroe Doctrine
Title | The Monroe Doctrine PDF eBook |
Author | Albert Bushnell Hart |
Publisher | |
Pages | 474 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | Monroe doctrine |
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The Monroe Doctrine on Trial
Title | The Monroe Doctrine on Trial PDF eBook |
Author | William G. Bodner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 166 |
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The Monroe Doctrine: National Or International?
Title | The Monroe Doctrine: National Or International? PDF eBook |
Author | William Isaac Hull |
Publisher | |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Monroe doctrine |
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A blanc check for intervention - the evolution of the Monroe Doctrine and its significance in contemporary U.S. foreign policy
Title | A blanc check for intervention - the evolution of the Monroe Doctrine and its significance in contemporary U.S. foreign policy PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Schmid |
Publisher | GRIN Verlag |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 2007-01-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3638595544 |
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - Region: USA, grade: 1,3, Indiana University (Political Science Department), course: American Political Traditions, language: English, abstract: The Monroe Doctrine will be 200 years old in 2023 and the world of today could not be more different than from the conditions of the world in which president James Monroe gave his speech, which would become so famous and significant for the direction of U.S. foreign policy. Yet the policies of the Monroe Doctrine are still very much alive. Especially after president Theodore Roosevelt announced the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine in 1904 America’s path of becoming a major player in world affairs with arbitrary power was paved for them. The argument of this paper is that the document known today as the Monroe Doctrine started out as a simple but efficient and bold proclamation, which dealt with the problems of its time and has been transformed into a tool for global involvement. Originally it attempts to keep Europeans out of the New World but it does not attack the already existing colonies in the Western Hemisphere. Over time various presidents altered this original phrasing. One of the more important examples of this tradition is Theodore Roosevelt’s Corollary to the doctrine, which will serve as an illustration to outline the main argument. Roosevelt turned the meaning of the doctrine around and went from noninterference to active responsibility by the United States to intervene anywhere in the Western Hemisphere where chaos and violence ruled. Still limited on the Western Hemisphere and whatever was defined to fit into this category Roosevelt’s definition of the “international police power” soon became just that. The United States would enter two World Wars on the basic justification that they were restoring order and justice and were only acting out of self-defense reasons. After World War II nothing of what James Monroe had once proclaimed as essential to American progress was left. The defining characteristic of Monroe’s old doctrine-the non-interference with European affairs phrase-had been shattered to pieces. The Cold War forced the United States to become even more dedicated to European matters and even after the Cold War the U.S. or a multilateral coalition under U.S. leadership now dealt with new threats to European peace. With the post 9/11 era all dreams about isolation from Europe were forever destroyed. The War on Terrorism is the latest effort of the United States to change the conditions of countries all around the world.
The Monroe Doctrine
Title | The Monroe Doctrine PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Marquand Dozer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Monroe doctrine |
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