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Monroe Doctrine: Latin America
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Abstract : Is the Monroe Doctrine worth reviving in today's world? This paper argues that the strategic principles behind the Doctrine, including its various transformations, are as valid and relevant as ever. Compared to just listing specific U.S. interests, the principles provide a clearer picture of why the Caribbean Basin is important to U.S. security, and what U.S. policy and strategy should emphasize. Properly done at the right time, the elaboration of a doctrine may help an administration galvanize public support and direct policy behavior. However, since mere mention of the Monroe Doctrine may provoke automatic public criticism at home and throughout Latin America, this paper does not recommend renovating it by name. People mainly remember its negative repercussions, not its positive elements.
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The impact of the Monroe Doctrine was mixed. It was successful to the extent that the continental powers did not immediately attempt to revive the Spanish empire, but this was on account of the strength of the British Navy, not American military might. The Doctrine ... was successful in that it kept France, Spain and other powers out of the region, but Britain would long remain the dominant trade power in Latin America. The Doctrine was a failure from the standpoint that the Latin American nations resented the Big Brother behavior of the U.S.— a prescient attitude on their parts.
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The Monroe Doctrine was created in 1823 by President James Monroe and Secretary of State John Q. Adams. It was a bold statement by the USA to make telling all European nations that the Western Hemisphere is America’s hemisphere and to stay out or pay the consequences. That was a bold statement to come from the USA at the time because at the time we were getting “picked on” and “thrown around like a ragdoll.” For a country like the USA at the time to say something like that, it was crazy.
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Of the regions of the Americas which were directly influenced by a European colonial power, it is notable that the colonies and territories of British North America were not included in the implementation of the Monroe Doctrine. The War of 1812 had already been fought between the United States, the United Kingdom and Canadian colonials for possession of Lower and Upper Canada, and any further attempts at intervening in the northern colonies would almost certainly have led to another U.S.-UK war.
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The Monroe doctrine was created by Monroe and John Quincy Adams in 1823. The doctrine was announced during his 7th annual state of the Union Address to Congress. The doctrine was a bold statement by the US flexing it’s muscles for the first time. It appeared on the outside to be a civil and the rite thing to do to protect the latin american countries riddled by revolutions. The countries were week and could have been easily taken over by European countries or the US. The US had no interest in the countries and wanted to protect them from European invaders not for the countries well being but there own.
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The Monroe Doctrine of December 2, 1823, and the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine of December 6, 1904, are the bedrocks of expansionism and intervention which has caused so much misery, death and impoverishment for millions across Latin America. The country of Venezuela has played no small part in this history.
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