The Monroe Doctrine was and is a justification for actions, some good, some indifferent, but the overwhelming bulk reprehensible. The Monroe Doctrine remains in place, both explicitly and ...

James Holmes correctly describes the Monroe Doctrine, and distinguishes it from Chinese maritime claims: Far from being a writ for American meddling, the Monroe Doctrine was popular in Latin ...

Smith's Plantation Library of Congress/Digiital Public Library of America Today marks the 200 th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine, celebrated in history books for extending U.S. influence ...

House lawmakers of Cuban-American descent are pushing back against progressives’ efforts to eliminate the Monroe Doctrine, a 200-year-old U.S. policy that categorizes political intervention in the ...

Bush’s “Big Bang” theory of regional transformation, then Venezuela has become Trump’s test of hemispheric re-engineering.

From attacking drug boats to pressuring Venezuela’s leader, the President is putting the Western Hemisphere at the center of ...

The Monroe Doctrine, a muscular defense of national interests reflecting the burgeoning strength of the young United States, was espoused by President James Monroe on this day in history, Dec. 2 ...

White House national security adviser John Bolton was detailing the U.S. government’s hard line against the government of “dictator” Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela on Sunday morning when CNN’s Jake ...

ON November 20, 1908, Sir Edward Grey remarked that foreign governments were living, as the English were, a hand-to-mouth existence, and did not have so many deep-laid plans as were generally ...

The Trump administration’s pursuit of “a new economic Monroe Doctrine,” in which the United States extends a hand to the ...